Fwd: Re: Marlin-Renderer and JavaFX

[Kevin Rushforth]

Laurent Bourgès wrote:
> Michael,
>
>   
>> I know, but JavaFX is still doing a lot of software rendering and I doubt
>>     
> that this will change
>   
>> in the near future. So having at least the option to use MarlinFX instead
>>     
> of the current
>   
>> default renderer may be a advantage especially when multithreading is
>>     
> enabled.
>
> Thanks for your positive feedback that motivates me to make the job to
> integrate the marlin renderer in the JavaFX pipeline.
>   

Early benchmark results look very promising, too.

> For now the OpenPiscesRasterizer class uses a static Renderer (single
> instance) so it is single-threaded.
>
> In MarlinFX I could prepare the multi-threading support by using 1
> RendererContext per thread (ThreadLocal) as I did in Marlin for java2d.
>
> However it seems a complex task to enable parallelization in the javafx
> pipeline but I could help there also...
>   

Enabling parallel rasterization seems like a good follow-on task, but is 
out of scope for the short term given the limited amount of time. Also, 
the only way that MarlinFX even has a chance of getting approved for in 
JDK 9 is for the default OpenPisces path to be unaltered.

-- Kevin



> Cheers,
> Laurent
>
>   
>> Michael
>>
>> Am 19.10.16 um 17:16 schrieb Markus KARG:
>>
>>     
>>> Michael, note that Marlin FX still is fully software rendering, while
>>>       
> you asked for more hardware rendering recently. The latter will be an
> additional approach not targeted yet by Marlin FX.
>   
>>> -Markus
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: openjfx-dev [mailto:openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On
>>>       
> Behalf Of Michael Paus
>   
>>> Sent: Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2016 15:07
>>> To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Marlin-Renderer and JavaFX
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate such a solution too.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> Am 19.10.16 um 14:34 schrieb Kevin Rushforth:
>>>       
>>>> Jim Graham suggested the same thing to me privately, so he and Laurent
>>>> are currently looking into that possibility.
>>>>
>>>> -- Kevin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Davide Malpassini wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I think that Marlin-Renderer can be included not as a default
>>>>> renderer to limit the impact to the jdk9 release , but leave to the
>>>>> user / developer the possibility to use and test on real applications
>>>>> the benefit of this Renderer .
>>>>>
>>>>> This is only an user opinion , but i think that the benefits are big.
>>>>> Davide Malpassini
>>>>>           
>>>
>>>