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Best Practices and Common Questions

Object Parameters as Const-Ref

Reading Data Efficiently

Processing different subtrees of a stage in different threads to reduce contention for prims and paths.

Converting datatypes (VtValue::Cast) and potentially reading native datatypes.

Payloads: Impact of Using and Not Using

Miscellaneous Do's and Dont's

SdfPath::GetString() gives a fully unrolled, representation of any location in namespace, and is very useful for debugging. However, it is rather expensive, and may cause a globally-shared cache to be populated. Don't call it (or SdfPath::GetText()) in any performance-critical loops, and in general, if using it for diagnostics, only call it inside a block that is guarded by your debug flag.