Scene Builder performance regression between 1.1 and 2.0

[Felix Bembrick]

Curiously it seems to only be a significant problem on one particular machine although it does run slower on all our Windows machines so it may well be a driver related issue.

The problematic machine has an Nvidia Quadro FX5800. I will check for a driver update and report back on the subsequent results.

But there is still a performance regression on all machines...

> On 8 Nov 2013, at 8:02, Darryl R <rdarrylr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> It seems ok for me so far on windows. Here is what I see in the about dialog:
> 
> Product Version
> JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0 (Developer Preview)
> 
> Build Information
> Version: 2.0-b05, Changeset: ae16937fb015
> Date: 2013-10-24 10:43
> 
> JavaFX
> Toolkit = QuantumToolkit
> Pipeline = D3DPipeline
> Hardware acceleration ENABLED
> 
> Java
> 1.8.0-ea-b112, Oracle Corporation
> 
> Operating System
> Windows 7, x86, 6.1
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 12:43:49 PM, Philipp Dörfler <phdoerfler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I also noticed a performance regression (Linux x64). SceneBuilder 1.1 was
> already kind of slow, but 2.0 feels even less snappy. The menus feel
> particularly sluggish and I can even see parts of the GPU's memory content
> right before the menu items are being drawn over it.
> Am 07.11.2013 12:49 schrieb "Artem Ananiev" <artem.ananiev at oracle.com>:
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On 11/7/2013 10:11 AM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
>>> 
>>> Scene Builder 2.0 has very serious performance issues (on my machines at
>>> least).
>>> 
>>> When running 1.1 & 2.0 side-by-side, 1.1 is very responsive and behaves
>>> very well.  On the contrary, 2.0 is extremely sluggish with a few seconds
>>> between clicking on a control and the selection handles appearing and
>>> trying to resize the properties pane is so slow that it is not usable.
>> 
>> It may be caused by exceptions or logging output to stdout/err...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Artem
>> 
>>   I see this version of Scene Builder was built with JDK8 b112.
>>> 
>>> Is anyone else experiencing this?  Have I just hit on some subtle
>>> performance issue with JavaFX 8 and the GPU drivers on this machine (which
>>> is Windows 7 64-bit BTW).?
>>> 
>>> Felix
>>> 
>>>