[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Resurrecting Lauren'ts work on speeding up Pisces

[Laurent Bourgès]

Andrea,

I made some progress since webrev 4 (may 2013) but mainly stopped working
on it due to lack of time and there is apparently no way (no bug id, no
feedback) to integrate my efforts into JDK 8.

I can try soon to produce a new patch (5) including my last changes (close
to initial code, less changes) to make this work rebirth.

Maybe we could work together providing a better patch as you explained that
could be merged in JDK 8 or JDK 9 ...

Laurent


2013/10/19 Andrea Aime <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it>

> Hi all,
> it's been a few months since my last mail.
> If you remember, I've tried participating to Laurent webrev discussions by
> providing
> a real world benchmark using GeoServer running the public OSGeo WMS
> shootout.
> If you want to read the last discussion on the topic, this was the thread:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.2d.devel/3467
>
> Well, I'm back since I've managed to build a pure java PNG encoder that's
> significantly
> faster than both the JDK one, and the ImageIO native one (aka
> CLibPNGImageWriter),
> especially when run on OpenJDK, so I'm back trying to make the renderer
> itself faster
> for server side, headless workflows :-)
> (if you want more info on the PNG encoder work I'm at your disposal too,
> let's start a
> separate thread).
>
> Now, Laurent's work pretty much stopped at the fourth webrev, and I'm
> interested
> in trying to take over, provided there is a chance for the changes to be
> merged (either
> in JDK 8 or JDK 9).
>
> From my existing experience with open source projects I believe the
> patches can
> have a better chance of being merged by avoiding code style changes, and
> minimizing
> the changes to the bare minimum that provides the most significant
> speedup, and
> then make a choice on how the arrays should be cached (the CQL approach
> seems
> to be more promising) to further simplify the code.
>
> So, if I sign the OCA, can I look over Laurent's code and build a new
> webrev
> oriented to providing the minimum of changes to the existing code, possibly
> trying to avoid any change that would affect the ductus pipeline?
>
> Would this be a good approach to get the improvements merged?
> In general, what do you suggest would be the best course of action?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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