Backport proposal of the Marlin renderer in OpenJDK8

[Mario Torre]

Hi Laurent,

I would be supportive with this if we had help backporting fixes and
solving problems that may happen in production systems in 8u.

Cheers,
Mario

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:05 AM Laurent Bourgès
<bourges.laurent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to discuss the opportunity to provide the Marlin renderer in OpenJDK8 updates.
>
> FYI it is the java2d antialiasing renderer that replaced Pisces in OpenJDK9 (integrated in 2015) that provide both better quality and performance.
> I am still maintaining the code on github, openjdk and openjfx.
> FYI the Marlin renderer has a very efficient path clipper since v0.9 integrated in OpenJDK11 (2018.7).
> Very few bugs (<5) were reported since 2015.
>
> Risks: azul zulu 8 and jetbrains jdk8 provide the Marlin renderer as their default renderer and it runs in production for years.
> I am aware that amazon corretto would like to have it backported too.
> AdoptOpenJDK already mentioned such possible backport on their web pages.
>
> Finally I propose to
> - make a large patch (same marlin version as latest openjdk 14 ie 0.9.1.1) to easily backport fixes in the future
> - leave it disabled by default. It will depend on the provider to enable it in its binary releases.
>
> Cheers,
> Laurent



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