Expected frame rates for a full-screen blur

[Stephen F Northover]

Hi Mike,

I'm sorry that I've been unable to get to this until now.  I can 
recreate the problem you are seeing on my Mac by running 
ColorfulCirclesApp.  Please enter a JIRA for the problem.  Thanks. Also 
try this:

Try this:

PerformanceTracker tracker = PerformanceTracker.getSceneTracker(scene);
Timeline timeline = new Timeline(
   new KeyFrame(Duration.seconds(1), t -> {
      System.out.println("::FPS = " + tracker.getAverageFPS());
   }));
timeline.setCycleCount(Timeline.INDEFINITE);
timeline.play();

Steve

On 2014-04-04 4:33 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> OK, now I'm really puzzled - I watched the JavaFX performance talk from
> 2011 and learned about PeformanceTracker. It's too bad that's not public
> API, but it works. I used it like so:
>
> PerformanceTracker tracker = PerformanceTracker.getSceneTracker(scene);
>          tracker.setOnRenderedFrameTask(new Runnable() {
>              long lastTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
>
>              @Override
>              public void run() {
>                  final long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
>                  long delta = now - lastTimestamp;
>                  if (delta < 1000)
>                      System.out.println("Frame took " + delta + "msec");
>                  lastTimestamp = now;
>              }
>          });
>
> The 1000 thing is just to avoid printing a nonsense timestamp when the UI
> hasn't been touched for a while.
>
> The deltas I see are consistently between 10-20msec which would be between
> 50 and 60fps, i.e. the vsync of the screen. But the wacky thing is, this
> doesn't change when I increase the size of the window, even though the
> animation is noticeably more choppy. It still says there's a 10-20msec gap
> between frames even though my eyes tell me otherwise. Even when I shrink
> the window size right down and get super smooth animation, the above code
> prints the same kind of deltas.
>
> This makes me think that whatever is going on, the regular JavaFX drawing
> thread isn't the issue. It seems to be churning through the scene at the
> same totally acceptable rate no matter what. So I'm thinking the issue must
> be something to do with how fast the GPU drains the command queue or
> something.
>
> BTW I tried doing -Dprism.order=j2d to see what would happen, and the GUI
> hangs before rendering anything. I'll file a bug on that later.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>
>> How does the OS "tank"?
>> All the OS animations hit the same frame rate as the app itself does. For
>> instance, opening Mission Control is normally smooth, but when a maximized
>> JFX app is animating, it's not.
>>
>> It feels like the GPU is being overworked but as I'm not a GPU expert at
>> all, I'm not sure where to begin - I am not even sure how to find out the
>> frame rate so I know when tweaks are improving things! Is there a way to
>> get this data from the system?
>>