reviewer needed: rendering performance backport.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:04 Mon 07 Feb     , Denis Lila wrote:
> > Hmm, so what was changed from the 7 version? And which changeset does
> > this depend on?
> 
> It depends on
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/2d-gate/jdk/rev/47cd69eff641
> and
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/2d-gate/jdk/rev/4d6f9aaa2600
> 

These both look like they should be backported.

> > Could we not backport that first?
> 
> We could, but the above also depend on some other changes that would
> need backporting. I'm not sure what these are yet. Should I look
> into it and backport everything necessary for the direct patch from
> openjdk7 to apply*?
> 

Depends what's needed; we have to decide on a case-by-case basis.

> Thanks,
> Denis.
> 
> *Note: this still won't be completely possible, since in openjdk7
> I use @Override notations on methods that implement interface methods,
> and ecj doesn't like this, which causes problems with our build.

That feature is part of 6 not 7 (and very badly documented).  It's not
a problem for ecj when set up with the correct source/target options.
-- 
Andrew :)

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