RFR: 8332895: Support interpolation for backgrounds and borders [v18]

[John Hendrikx]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 15:12:22 GMT, Andy Goryachev <angorya at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> would it be easier just to pass a boolean to the constructor? we are changing the public API anyway...
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>> Usually boolean parameters are not a good API choice, but I have no strong opinion on this one. What do you prefer?
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> I just think it's much simpler than an annotation...
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> Or it could be a public instance method `boolean isSupportReconstruction()` for the child classes to override, saving N (1? 8?) bytes per instance.

But the annotation costs no bytes per instance, if that even matters, as I thought these were singletons so it looks like we're quite into micro-optimization territory here.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1522#discussion_r1707250058