What is the priority of the JavaFX thread?

[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

Does JavaFX intentionally set a priority for the JavaFX thread? I would very much like to hear what the decision behind setting or not setting such a priority is.

The reason I am asking is, on my development Mac, it seems the JavaFX thread is easily starved by other CPU load, and I was thinking if the developers of JavaFX did or did not expect application developers to manage JavaFX thread priority.

Thanks

Randahl