performance

[Felix Bembrick]

As some of you are aware I have been working on an application I call
FXMark which may do at least some of these things that you are looking for.

Unfortunately due to some rather tragic recent personal events and
circumstances it has been delayed very much but I am working on it now
again and hope to be available as soon as possible.

However, given that those circumstances I mentioned are still on-going and
it's difficult to tell when things might improve, I am not in a position to
commit to any kind of release date at this stage.

Sorry I cannot provide any more info than that be I thought you'd at least
like to know that an app which may be what your looking for is currently
well under development.

Cheers,

Felix


On 21 February 2015 at 05:07, Michael Heinrichs <michael at netopyr.com> wrote:

> Hi Johan,
>
> I would be careful with using a benchmark app. The problem is that there
> is no typical JavaFX application and any kind of performance optimization
> must be heavily weighted against possible performance degradation for other
> types of applications. A benchmark app tends to skew your optimization
> effort towards optimizing mostly for the benchmark app. Instead I would
> extract benchmarks from applications where you see performance issues, e.g.
> I would try to extract a benchmark from the application where you noticed
> the slower swipe events, and optimize only until the performance becomes
> acceptable. This will still distort your optimization effort, but at least
> towards a real world issue. :)
>
> But I am pretty sure you are aware of the risks and want to use a
> benchmark app anyway. ;) A good suite of benchmarks is GUIMark 2
> http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/ <http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/>.
> I think there is a JavaFX implementation, but I am not sure, if it is
> available. What is missing completely in GUIMark 2 are UI controls, which
> are the most important ingredient in many applications. I remember one very
> simple, but highly effective benchmark: just a ListView with many entries,
> which was scrolled up and down. (That particular use case was always
> killing us on mobile.) Now I would probably use a TableView or
> TreeTableView.
>
> When I investigated poor response time, I usually measured the time
> between triggering an event until the screen changed as a reaction. In my
> opinion, it does not make sense to measure an input event in isolation,
> because poor response time can be caused by something completely different,
> thus one should try to get as close as possible to what the user
> experiences.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
>
> > On 20 Feb 2015, at 16:47, Johan Vos <johan at lodgon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a "standard" way to test "performance" of JavaFX on
> > different platforms (especially mobile). I know there are a number of
> apps
> > that show the fps, and it can also be measured in prism itself, but is
> > there some benchmark app?
> >
> > Also, is there a quantitative standard for measuring the quality of how a
> > JavaFX implementation responds to input events? The reason I'm asking the
> > latter is because on iOS, the response on swipe events is "slower" than
> on
> > Android -- but that's not a quantitative statement.
> > I am confident we can improve this, but it would be nice to have some
> > before and after numbers, to measure the improvements.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Johan
>
>