The attachments contain programs and benchmark results that show that printing
a page has a significant (approx 0.25 sec) overhead outside of actual execution
of the application supplied print() method. ie the overhead is in the JRE
printing implementation.
This figure is observed on a 550Mhz PIII with 256mb RAM and also a system
that's a little faster than that.
0.25 sec is not a lot for a couple of pages but a customer needs to print
100 pages. This can make a several second printjob turn into a 30 second
print job.


Printing use merlin-rc1 vs 1.4 beta3 build, the rendering speed has been improved. Verify as Fixed.
Here is the result run on win2000.
      merlin-rc1 beta3
      ---------- -----
test11 601ms 2263ms
test13 581ms 1722ms
test2d 1512ms 2133ms

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