What is the priority of the JavaFX thread?

[Kevin Rushforth]

I doubt this is related to thread priorities, but it would be worth 
verifying. More likely it's the interaction of thread scheduling, 
timers, and vsync.

-- Kevin


Richard Bair wrote:
> I don't *think* we set any thread priorities. I have tried different thread priorities in apps in the past (such as lowering the priority of background threads) and it didn't make a difference. I should look at the concurrent APIs in javaFX and see if they still set the thread priority…in fact it does. But I haven't noticed any app behavior that changed by doing so. But I haven't tried to set the thread priority from anywhere but within Java, and I'm on a mac, so maybe it works differently (although I am pretty certain I've talked to VM engineers who have said thread priorities are ignored on HotSpot).
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> Richard
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> On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Randahl Fink Isaksen <randahl at wefend.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks
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>> Randahl
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