QTreeView memory consumption

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Hello.

I'm testing QTreeView functionality right now, and i was amazed by one thing. It seems that QTreeView memory consumption depends on items count O_O. This is highly unusual, since model-view containers of such type only keeps track for items being displayed, and rest of items are in the model. I have written a following code with a simple model that holds no data and just reports that it has 10 millions items. With MFC, Windows API or .NET tree / list with such model will take no memory, since it will display only 10-20 visible elements and will request model for more upon scrolling / expanding items. But with Qt, such simple model results in ~300Mb memory consumtion. Increasing number of items will increase memory consumption. Maybe anyone can hint me what i'm doing wrong?

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QTreeView>
#include <QAbstractItemModel>
 
class CModel : public QAbstractItemModel
{
  public: QModelIndex index
  (
    int i_nRow,
    int i_nCol,
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return createIndex( i_nRow, i_nCol, 0 );
  }
 
  public: QModelIndex parent
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oInex
  ) const
  {
    return QModelIndex();
  }
 
  public: int rowCount
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return i_oParent.isValid() ? 0 : 1000 * 1000 * 10;
  }
 
  public: int columnCount
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return 1;
  }
 
  public: QVariant data
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oIndex,
    int i_nRole = Qt::DisplayRole
  ) const
  {
    return Qt::DisplayRole == i_nRole ? QVariant( "1" ) : QVariant();
  }
};
 
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication a(argc, argv);
  QTreeView oWnd;
  CModel oModel;
  oWnd.setUniformRowHeights( true );
  oWnd.setModel( & oModel );
  oWnd.show();
  return a.exec();
}

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QTreeView>
#include <QAbstractItemModel>

class CModel : public QAbstractItemModel
{
  public: QModelIndex index
  (
    int i_nRow,
    int i_nCol,
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return createIndex( i_nRow, i_nCol, 0 );
  }

  public: QModelIndex parent
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oInex
  ) const
  {
    return QModelIndex();
  }

  public: int rowCount
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return i_oParent.isValid() ? 0 : 1000 * 1000 * 10;
  }

  public: int columnCount
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oParent = QModelIndex()
  ) const
  {
    return 1;
  }

  public: QVariant data
  (
    const QModelIndex& i_oIndex,
    int i_nRole = Qt::DisplayRole
  ) const
  {
    return Qt::DisplayRole == i_nRole ? QVariant( "1" ) : QVariant();
  }
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication a(argc, argv);
  QTreeView oWnd;
  CModel oModel;
  oWnd.setUniformRowHeights( true );
  oWnd.setModel( & oModel );
  oWnd.show();
  return a.exec();
}

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