Why does assigning parents take so long?

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1

While working on a project of mine today, I ran into something that seemed odd. The code below is where I found this occurring

		foreach (NodeAndNeighbors nd in nodeList) {
			GameObject temp = Instantiate(navNodeGen, new Vector3(nd.x * radius, nd.y * radius, nd.z * radius), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
            temp.transform.parent = GameObject.Find("NavMap").transform;
			navNodes.Add(temp);
		}

Now, the size of loop is around 60 thousand. The weird thing is… whenever the below ling is not commented out, this loop causes Unity to go unresponsive. It seems weird that reassigning the transform should be a fairly easy operating compared Instantiating that many game objects. Anyone know why this might be the case?

temp.transform.parent = GameObject.Find("NavMap").transform;
2

Reassigning the parent is indeed a slow task (relatively), but not nearly as slow as Find which is insanely slow as it searches through ALL objects in the scene. And you are saying you do it 60 000 times as well? You should avoid even using it a couple of times in one frame. Instead of searching every time you want to assign the parent, search once and store the result in a Transform variable and use that.