Canvas performance on Mac OS

[Jim Graham]

Hi Robert,

Please file a Jira issue with a simple test case.  Arcs are handled as a 
generalized shape rather than via a predetermined shader, but it 
shouldn't be that slow.  Something else may be going on.

Another test might be to replace the arcs with rectangles or ellipses 
and see if the performance changes...

			...jim

On 3/27/15 1:52 PM, Robert Krüger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a super-simple animation implemented using AnimationTimer and Canvas
> where the canvas just performs a few draw operations, i.e. fills the screen
> with a color and then draws and fills 2-3 circles and I have already
> observed that each drawing operation I add, results in significant CPU load
> (e.g. when I draw < 10 arcs in addition to the circles, the CPU load goes
> up to 30-40% on a Mac Book Pro for a Canvas size of 600x600(!).
>
> Now I tested the animation in full screen mode (only with a few circles)
> and playback is unusable for a serious application (very choppy). Is 2D
> canvas performance known to be very bad on Mac or am I doing something
> wrong? Are there workarounds for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>