Re: [ANNOUNCE] Blackdown J2SE 1.4.2-rc1 for AMD64 and i386

This release seems a bit *faster* on my machine.  Netbeans is a little
more responsive and the Java2D and SwingSet demos seem a little peppier.

I'm not running on an SMP machine.  Kernel 2.4.22, Glibc 2.3.2.

-Jim


> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:21:49PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * Improved graphics/imaging performance (up to 80% for some operations)
> > * Replaced some functions with thread safe equivalents
> 
> Anyone else seeing a massive *slowdown* in graphics/imaging 
> performance?  
> 
> I use jedit extensively and opening new windows takes 10-20 
> seconds before content is displayed, compared to ~1 second with 
> 1.4.1 (blackdown).  Certain other non-graphics operations also 
> seem slower; eg, compiling with Ant within Jedit.
> 
> Since I run SMP, additional thread safety might conceivably be 
> biting me -- but I wouldn't expect to see a slowdown THIS 
> dramatic.

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