Reading STEP entity id slow ?

Hello All,

I need to get the id of step entities, as this is used to reference information outside the STEP file,
e.g. the BW_123 from #33=OPEN_SHELL('BW_123',(#79)) ;

The lookup of this information takes ages compared with all other operation.

Loading my reference file containing ~10.000 faces into a document takes about 2 minutes,
creating a map containing the name and the shape about 45 minutes, doing the aktual work another 2 minutes.

The loop over the shapes itself takes less than a second, the code to access the id is taken from examples found in the forum.

Are there ideas how to speed this up a bit ?

Thank you, Carsten

for (TopExp_Explorer shellExplorer(shape, TopAbs_SHELL); shellExplorer.More(); shellExplorer.Next()) {
        const TopoDS_Shell& shell = TopoDS::Shell(shellExplorer.Current());

        // Get the name of the STEP Entity
        Standard_CString shapeName = "";
        Handle(Standard_Transient) anEntity =  aTransferReader->EntityFromShapeResult(shell, 1);

        if (anEntity.IsNull()) {
            // as just mapped
            anEntity = aTransferReader->EntityFromShapeResult(shell, -1);
        }

        if (anEntity.IsNull()) {
            // as anything
            anEntity = aTransferReader->EntityFromShapeResult(shell, 4);
        }

        if (anEntity.IsNull()) {
            GLOG(INFO) << "Warning: XSControl_TransferReader::EntityFromShapeResult(shapeResult) entity not found (NULL)";          
        } else {
            // use StepRepr_RepresentationItem for solids, faces and compound (geometric_set)
            Handle(StepRepr_RepresentationItem) aReprItem;
            aReprItem = Handle(StepRepr_RepresentationItem)::DownCast(anEntity);

            if (aReprItem.IsNull()) {
                GLOG(INFO) << "Warning:  XSControl_TransferReader::EntityFromShapeResult(shapeResult) : "
                    << "StepRepr_RepresentationItem Is NULL, entity type was: " << anEntity->DynamicType() << endl;

                // use StepRepr_Representation for some compounds like e.g. ManifoldSurfaceShapeRepresentation, StepShape_AdvancedBrepShapeRepresentation
                Handle(StepRepr_Representation) ent;
                ent = Handle(StepRepr_Representation)::DownCast(anEntity);
                if (ent.IsNull()) {
                    GLOG(INFO) << "Error:  XSControl_TransferReader::EntityFromShapeResult(shapeResult) : "
                        << "StepRepr_Representation also is NULL, entity type was: " << anEntity->DynamicType() << endl;
               } else {
                    shapeName = ent->Name()->ToCString();
                    id = ent->GetRefCount();
                }
            }  else {
                shapeName = aReprItem->Name()->ToCString();
                id = aReprItem->GetRefCount();
            }
        }