I'm wondering what the disadvantages of not disposing of the graphics
context every paint. More specifically, on the first call to paint I
create a bufferedImage and create a graphics2D from it. I use this
graphics2D for drawing and then use the graphics passed into paint to
draw the
If you don't call the dispose method on a Graphics object when you are
done with it, then that object may hold onto system resources until it
is garbage collected and finalized. Note that the VM makes very loose
promises on how often or soon objects will be GC'd and any dangling
references to
