This bug report is based on the VWP performance tiger team observation.
When a complex page is loaded in to the designer, it becomes very cumbersome
to design the page.

While moving around the components or modifying the component properties 
it takes several second for the designer to repaint. Designer freezes for
several seconds

On a fast machine it takes about 7-10 seconds for designer refresh.
On a slow end machine, it takes about 30-40 seconds on a very complex page.

We analyzed the performance using The main culprit seems to be
org.apache.batik.css.engine.CSSEngine.getCascadedStyleMap. (see attachments). 
For every property change in the component the StyleMap is recomputed by batik 
parser which is the main performance bottle neck.   

Even when one property changes other computed properties in the parents and children 
(inheritance + cascading) might change. so most of the things get recomputed after that.
  
Is there a way not to do page layout when modifications made to properties which does
not influence the layout at all (e.g renaming the id) or doing a binding that does not
change the visual at all.