java.awt event processing performance degradation on JRE7 - linux

[Mandy Chung]

Nicolas,

Thanks for reporting the problem.   I am curious if you have collected 
any profiling data that shows 
sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.redirectPlatformLoggers() is the cause 
of the performance degradation.  This redirection is done as part of the 
logging initialization before JFrame is initialized.  Since the 
performance degradation you observed is after the JFrame has been 
instantiated, it could be something else.  If it's logging-related, it 
would be sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.

Mandy

On 4/16/2012 6:18 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> java.util.logging is currently handled by the Serviceability Team.
> Adding that alias to this e-mail thread...
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 4/16/12 12:17 AM, Nicolas Carranza wrote:
>> Moving the mouse pointer over a java.awt.Window using JRE7 consumes
>> aprox. twice the CPU time as with JRE6 when logging is used (when a call
>> to java.util.logging.getLogger(String)---even without using the returned
>> Logger--- has been done). Keyboard key event processing suffers the same
>> performance penalty. For steps to reproduce this problem please look at:
>> http://www.java.net/forum/topic/performance/general-performance-discussion/jre7s-javaawt-performance-degradation-caused-javautillogging-linux 
>>
>> .
>>
>> The performance degradation seems to be "enabled" by the call of
>> sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.redirectPlatformLoggers() done inside
>> java.util.LogManager.readPrimorialConfiguration() on JRE7. Call chain:
>> Logger.getLogger()->LogManager.getLogManager()->
>> LogManager.readPrimordialConfiguration()->sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.redirectPlatformLoggers(). 
>>
>>
>> This call is not made on JRE6. If this problem is not easy to solve then
>> I guess is better to remove this call from JRE7's
>> readPrimordialConfiguration as it does more harm than good.
>>
>> Please let me know if there is a better place to report this problem. A
>> couple of weeks ago I "opened" a bug report on bugs.sun.com but I
>> received no response at all.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nicolas