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It's clearly layout thrashing underneath _treeElementAddedOrChanged. Should _updateContentOverflowShadowVisibility really be called every time a tree element is added or changed?
Created attachment 229329 [details] captured profile from 2nd level inspector
Oh, I fixed this recently: <https://webkit.org/b/135313> Web Inspector: Timelines performance is very slow, has many forced layouts It is dramatically better. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 135313 ***