Hello Igor, thank you for your reply. Its not only the runtime the reporting: in the original application where I extracted this code from, it produced a noticable slowdown in the rendering threads because of the garbage collector runs.
As I said, since I am using MemoryImageSources now, it has no practical relevance for me anymore. Still, it would be interested to understand what is happening .. MfG; ChaosE [Message sent by forum member 'chaose71' (chaose71)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=269289 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".