JavaFX performance for complex visualisations

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Thu Dec 6 13:16:23 PST 2012


Lets file a JIRA on this and see how it behaves.

On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 2012-12-06, at 2:41 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know of any reliable way to give our graphics threads any higher priority. My understanding (and experimentation) with thread priorities in Java is that they are completely ignored.
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> I don't think that true.  At least not on Windows.  Though on Windows there are different "classes" or priority,  The full range of Java priorities is mapped to a narrow range of the native thread priorities.  The highest we could go from the Java side still left room for higher native priorities.
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>> There is probably some way in native to raise the priority?
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> There is.  We just had to do that in our product because we needed a specific thread to be TIME_CRITICAL thread priority on Windows and possibly have the process be in the REALTIME priority class.
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> See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms685100(v=vs.85).aspx
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> 
> Scott
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