Constructing a hybrid kernel (e.g. hybrid-cgal-simple-opencascade) ran
find_kernel_match once per component on every construction. Each call
creates a plugin manager, walks the plugin search paths and loads every
geometry_kernel_* module from disk before matching the component name.
Named kernels only pay this once because they are registered in the
static registry after the first load, but a hybrid name is never
registered, so every iterator or create_shape construction repeated the
full scan (measured 28-100 ms per component on the reference model,
~70 ms extra per create_shape call; far worse on platforms where
library loading is expensive).
Cache the resolved component backend ids per hybrid name. The first
construction still performs the full discovery and registers the
matched modules; subsequent constructions build the components straight
from the registry without touching the disk.
Petru Conduraru