>Guillaume Bedard wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all!
>> 
>> I have tried the new HotSpot VM with our application which makes use
>> of Java3D, and for an unknown reason, it is noticeably slower than
>> the classic VM in all situations.  I must admit that I was hoping
>> a totally different result.
>> 
>> If someone has more details or similar results, please answer.
>
>I noticed this too, when I was using the pre-release version. I didn't
>want to say anything because you couldn't talk about performance in
>public, but I guess that's changed now.
>
>Maybe a member of the J3D team can comment on this ? I'm sure they have
>tested Hotspot and noticed it ...
>


I found similar results.  HotSpot didn't seem to 
speed up Java3D.  Here are my scores on the tornado 
labs benchmark, before and after HotSpot.

Steve Schweibinz


CPU     Dual PII OverDrive
Speed   333 x 2
OS      Win NT SP3
Video   STB Velocity 4400, PCI, nVidia Riva TNT (16Mb), v. 1.01 
RAM     320 MB

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512x512 Resolution

        FPS without HotSpot     FPS with HotSpot

Test 1          35.97                   32.66
Test 2          177.93                  177.94
Test 3          31.68                   31.68

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256x256 Resolution

        FPS without HotSpot     FPS with HotSpot

Test 1          38.08                   34.39
Test 2          188.67                  188.68
Test 3          32.01                   31.07


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