Raspberry Pi + JavaFX 3D demo

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

It's quite interesting and hard to say so I won't speculate other than 
to say that for some of the low level FPS test, RoboVM was slower.  
However, the numbers were suspicious in that they seemed to be capped at 
a maximum frame rate.  Needs more investigation to make sure that the 
measurements were correct.

Steve

On 12/07/2013 11:03 AM, Richard Bair wrote:
> BTW, we've run a VM performance benchmark against HotSpot on PI vs. RoboVM on iOS and for raw power RoboVM seems faster (lower time to invoke a method, read a field, etc etc). However in the real world RoboVM is slow and I don't know why (GC overhead maybe)?
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> Richard
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> On Jul 12, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> That should be encouraging, since the CPU on the PI is *way* worse than the CPU on an iPhone or iPad. Is the difference HotSpot vs. RoboVM? The graphics code being executed should be pretty much exactly the same, and I would expect the PowerVR to be able to handle this without any trouble.
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>> Richard
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>> On Jul 12, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:
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>>> The performance is much better than JavaFX8 on iOS :(
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>>> Am 12.07.2013 um 15:37 schrieb August Lammersdorf, InteractiveMesh <sdn at interactivemesh.com>:
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>>>> Found this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scxqJjTJKI
>>>>
>>>> August