<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: 8029253 [macosx] Performance problems with Retina display on Mac OS X

[Andrew Brygin]

Hi Sergey,

  could you please clarify why you have eliminated OGLC_VENDOR_SUN?

Thanks,
Andrew

On 6/11/2014 5:01 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hello.
> Please review the fix for jdk 9, which is also targeted for jdk 8u20.
> Description:
> We have two codepaths to draw a raster to the opengl:
>  - via glDrawPixels
>  - via intermediate texture.
> We empirically checked, what way is better, based on benchmarks. 
> Became obvious that on intel devices the glDrawPixels is slower than 
> intermediate texture, and this is a bottleneck when the scrolling is 
> used.
>
> j2bench is not properly cover retina case, but according to some of my 
> tests results is 2-3 times better.
>
> There is no regressions on windows:
> Summary:
>   ogl-base:
>     Number of tests:  60
>     Overall average:  1452524.357368045
>     Best spread:      0.17% variance
>     Worst spread:     248.44% variance
>     (Basis for results comparison)
>
>   ogl-fix:
>     Number of tests:  60
>     Overall average:  1469528.5484618822
>     Best spread:      0.12% variance
>     Worst spread:     246.59% variance
>     Comparison to basis:
>       Best result:      161.48% of basis
>       Worst result:     93.54% of basis
>       Number of wins:   38
>       Number of ties:   17
>       Number of losses: 5
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8029253/perf/windows.txt
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029253
> Webrev can be found at: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8029253/webrev.00
>