Re: Paint Phase Debugging / Performance

2018-05-01 Thread Johan Vos
Hi Matthew, I agree this is a very important question. I don't like it when people say that "JavaFX is slow" because if everything is done right, JavaFX can be extremely fast. But I also realise that it is very easy to make things very slow in JavaFX, and in case "performance" is slow, it is

Re: Paint Phase Debugging / Performance

2018-05-01 Thread Matthew Elliot
Hey Johan, thanks for the detailed answer. Perhaps a bit more context as well... from our experience it seems about 10-12% of the setups we hit fall back to Software because of various issues or predominantly or 'sadly' virtualisation like Citrix so we have to be sure in SW mode things run

Re: native libs in modules

2018-05-01 Thread Johan Vos
I'd love to hear a general recommendation from the jigsaw team as well. Clearly, there are a number of solutions, and as a developer, I easily get confused if some frameworks do it with option A and others with option B. So what is the preferred approach in general? It seems (given the large size

Re: native libs in modules

2018-05-01 Thread Kevin Rushforth
[including Alan and Mandy] This came up briefly in a thread sent to jigsaw-dev [1], but with no real conclusion. I agree that it would be good to get a recommendation from the Jigsaw team. After thinking about it more, here are my preferences: * From the developer's point of view, they