Hi all and sorry for the delay ... > Pivot uses a volatile image to buffer all drawing. However, it's not clear to > me just how much of an improvement we actually get from doing this. As I > recall, only rectangles are accelerated, and only on Windows. And you risk > losing the contents of the buffer if the graphics driver needs the RAM. So > you may be OK with just a regular buffered image.
In Java 7 there should be many improvements in the graphics pipeline, even in Linux and not only for rectangles, I hope we will start to see some visible improvement. Some general info on changes in Java 7 here: http://linuxhippy.blogspot.com/ Bye
