How to stop GMSMapView renderer?

I noticed a performance issue when using GMSMapView as part of my view hierarchy. Important note: the map doesn't take up the whole screen, it is used as a table view header. These issues affect the behaviour of the table view itself - low FPS, which results in a bad user experience, so I'm trying to resolve these issues or at least understand what GMSMapView is doing.

Using Time Profiler I found out that this is cased by the GMSMapView re-rendering on every frame (as I can tell), because the heaviest stack trace on the main thread is:

Which is called from: CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION

(I guess it's just how internals of Google Maps work - it registers a CADisplayLink with a runloop and re-renders it on each frame)

This results in a heavy CPU usage (up to 99%):

Note that on the selected area nothing really happens to the app, it just displays a static map and a table view (no user interaction, no frame changes, no anything)

If I conduct the same test without a GMSMapView as a subview, the CPU usage in the same place is almost 0%:

Now to the question. Why is that happening and how to stop this behaviour?

I found a method called - (void) stopRendering on a GMSMapView, and tested it - the results are good and I get the same performance as when I completely remove the map view. However, this method is marked as deprecated and it states that it will be removed in a future releases of the SDK, which makes it a bad candidate for a long-term solution.

Any help, explanation or clues will be appreciated!

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