[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] sun.java2D.pisces big memory usage (waste ?)

[Laurent Bourgès]

Dear all,

I recently profiled my swing application (Aspro2: http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro)
using the netbeans profiler (OpenJDK8 / linux x64) and in contrary to
Oracle JDK, it consumes a lot of memory in sun.java2D.pisces code as int[]
or float[] arrays:
- Helpers.widenArray : 25Mb
- Renderer<init>: 75 Mb (from AAShapePipe.draw)

Here are few profiler screenshots:
http://jmmc.fr/~bourgesl/share/pisces2D/

Aspro2 screenshot illustrating the plot that consumes a lot of memory:
http://jmmc.fr/~bourgesl/share/pisces2D/Capture-Aspro2.png

My application uses jfreechart that calls graphics2D.draw(shape) where
shape is always a rectangle / line with antialiasing enabled.

Several questions:
- Why is the antialiasing performed in java code ? I mean is it possible to
use OpenGL or XRender pipelines to perform such tasks ?
- Is there some docs explaining the java2D code and the different
implementations (openjdk, oracle, xrender, opengl ...) ?
- how could I help improving that code (Renderer ...) to avoid so many
array allocations / resizing (array sizing or using a thread context object
to reuse allocated int[] / float[] arrays) ?

Does somebody work on that topic ? has some ideas to optimize that code
(pisces) ?

Regards,
Laurent
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