Name: ml70278 Date: 11/24/99
Name: kgh Date: 03/07/00

J2SE 1.2 introduced a serious performance degradation when displaying
Swing-based applications either on local or remote displays, i.e. JDK 1.1 +
Swing 1.1.1 was much faster than 1.2.

J2SE 1.2.2 and 1.3 substantially improved Swing performance, and 1.3 is
now typically faster than JDK 1.1.8 for local Swing applications. However
there are still performance issues for remote displays.

We should continue to address Swing performance for both local and remote
display. Merlin 2D feature 4317185 will address remote display issues.
Merlin feature 4228939 will boost underlying 2D performance for common
swing operations. We should also continue with general performance work
in Swing itself.