Hi Chris,
You might want to take a look at the Task class from Swing Application
Framework. It is a great abstraction for long-running operations in
general. It's basically a fancy SwingWorker, with support for a nice
publish/process-protocol, which I think you could use for your drip-
If I understand well, what takes time here is the computation of the plot.
Now, have you considered building some kind of representation of the plot (say,
in terms of shapes) ? In this case, you would have :
* A thread building an abstract representation of the data
* the graphical thread whose
Er... is StrictMath already FPU accelerated? If it
is then, oh well...
Its as far accalerated as the FPU produces acceptable results.
For example on x86 the sin-command is used only in a special range where its
known to be correct.
The current Math package is really not very good.
