[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] X11 uniform scaled wide lines and dashed lines; STROKE_CONTROL in Pisces

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Denis,

> It's not obvious to me why this happened, so I think now I will put
> this type of optimization aside and convert to JNI,

I've only followed your discussion with Jim but skipped all the
in-depth discussion.
>From my prior experiences usually  JNI is not woth the trouble, if you
don't have a serious reason why using native code would have
advantages (like the possibility of using SIMD or when value-types
would be a huge benefit), it has its own performance pitfalls
especially if the workload is small and things like Get*ArrayCritical
cause scalability problems because they have to lock the GC.

> where profiling
> will be easier (for me - I haven't been able to make OProfile work
> for java yet).

Have you had a look at the Netbeans profiler? It supports sampling
based testing to keep the influence of the profiler at a minimum.

Thanks for working on this!

- Clemens