Hello, Please review my fix for bug 7188093, located at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ceisserer/7188093/webrev.01/
Billinear interpolation is the highest quality interpolation supported by xrender, so the xrender-pipeline has to fall back software loops in case bicubic interpolation is requested. Nimbus only uses billinear interpolation, however I have no idea how much this affects other real-world applications out there. Thank you in advance, Clemens