Kenneth Gordon wrote:
> I am writing a Java3D application that uses Swing for its gui. I am
> aware of all of the heavyweight/lightweight issues, and am prepared to
> get around them. However, when I use Swing on this machine, the
> performance is HORRIBLE!!!!
[snip]
> Has anyone else run into this? Is there a way around it (a simple
> patch, for example)?
Yes. We have about 6 320's and a couple of 540's, all of them suffered
the same problems right from the very start. Basically using swing on
VW's is useless. There was still no fix when I left the company in April
despite well over a year of very noisy protesting to SGI. Seems that
Java is not a particularly interesting issue to the SGI engineers. Even
the OpenGL performance was shit on anything other than their very highly
optimised demo applications. Simple things like 3DSMax and Microstation
were basically unusable on the machines. Definitely not worth spending
your money on. Send 'em back and ask for a full refund.
--
Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker
http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer
http://www.j3d.org/ J3D.org The Java 3D Community Site
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