reviewer needed: rendering performance backport.

[Denis Lila]

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

Very well. Then I'll start making a list of everything and we can start
backporting them.

Regards,
Denis.

----- Original Message -----
> 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*?
> >
> 

> 
> > 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.
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