angular-animate is crippling ng-repeat performance

[kdekooter]

I am rendering a list of about 280 items in a table like so:

<tr ng-repeat="item in items | orderBy:'name' | limitTo:displayLimit | filter:filter.query | filter:filterTags" ng-click="showItem(item.tcId)" class="tc-clickable">
   <td>{{item.sellersItemIdentification}}</td>
   <td>{{item.name}}</td>
   <td>{{ item.tags | stringList }}</td>
   <td>{{item.salesPrice | currency:'€ '}}</td>
</tr>

After a lot of digging around I found out that ng-animate is totally crippling the rendering performance of this table:

Removing ngAnimate from the app makes the table render as expected: fast.

Is this a bug? Can the animation stuff be disabled for this view? I am using angular version 1.2-rc2

[IgorMinar]

This should be fixed in master please reopen if that's not the case. Grab a build from ci.angularjs.org to test.

[matsko]

@kdekooter this was a big issue with RC2 and RC3 got itself a 5000% speed boost with ngAnimate. Please test using that one.

[kdekooter]

@matsko can't use that version because of #4431 unfortunately.