http://www.turbovnc.org/DeveloperInfo/PreReleases
Highlights: -- Much better performance under Java 7 and later on OS X (but Apple's Java 1.6 is still the best performing solution, and the TurboVNC documentation now goes into detail as to why.) Unfortunately, after talking to the Java developers, it does not appear that Java 9 is expected to resolve this situation in any way (although it should improve performance relative to Java 7/8 when client-side scaling is used.) The TurboVNC documentation now de-emphasizes the use of the "OracleJava" flavor of our standalone client and recommends the "AppleJava" flavor whenever possible, even though this requires obtaining "Java for OS X" from Apple Support if installing on a more recent OS X release: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572. NOTE: despite the fact that the "OracleJava" flavor benchmarks somewhat slower than the "AppleJava" flavor, it's still somewhat faster than the TigerVNC FLTK-based viewer for OS X. So in terms of preserving our "Turbo" reputation, we're safe. -- Fixed a bug that was causing the toolbar to display incorrectly (or not at all) or to be overdrawn by the first few framebuffer updates when running under Java 7 and later. -- Improved Java viewer performance under Windows (the viewer will now disable Direct3D Java 2D blitting and use the Windows GDI for blitting, when possible. This is almost always faster.) -- Improved native viewer performance under Windows (basically porting the same algorithmic fixes from the Unix and Java viewer code bases-- improves overall performance by about 5% or so.) -- Other minor bug fixes Performance-wise, this should be the final story for 2.0, unless some new information comes to light regarding extracting more performance under Java 7+ on OS X. Remaining major stuff that I'm working on right now for 2.0: -- Finishing client-side support for desktop resizing -- Fixing Java full-screen issues under Linux -- VeNCrypt support -- Keyboard grab feature in Java viewer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ TurboVNC-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/turbovnc-users
