<Swing Dev> Swing performance issue on JDK 9

Semyon Sadetsky semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com
Mon Oct 23 15:08:00 UTC 2017


Hi Alan,

Do you have a test to reproduce the issue or can you describe the steps 
to reveal it?

--Semyon


On 10/21/2017 10:17 AM, Alan Snyder wrote:
> I have a Swing program that works fine on JDK 8 but runs like a dog [unusably slowly] on JDK 9. My investigation finds the problem in text layout (e.g. FlowView.layout), which is a whopping 20–25 times slower on JDK 9.
>
> Any idea what might have changed to cause this slowdown?
>
> Could it be the result of the new String implementation?
>
>    Alan
>




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