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Bug 88271 - Turn off Apple Quartz renderer by default
Summary: Turn off Apple Quartz renderer by default
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: -- Other -- (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: _ rkubacki
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Reported: 2006-10-30 18:31 UTC by erwinv
Modified: 2008-12-22 19:49 UTC (History)
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Description erwinv 2006-10-30 18:31:52 UTC 
The 5.5 release does not specifically turn off Apple's Quartz renderer. Performance of NetBeans appears to 
suffer. Using the Java software renderer, by turning off the Quartz renderer, tends to show great 
improvement in execution speed.

To turn off the Quartz renderer, add switch to either etc/netbeans.conf under default_options, or in the 
bin/netbeans execution script:

-J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false
Comment 1 erwinv 2006-10-30 20:19:20 UTC 
Addendum:

Turning off Quartz rendering does cause other issues, notably rendering problems in the help window.

Hm.
Comment 2 _ rkubacki 2006-10-31 08:08:30 UTC 
Looking at the issue #83271 it seems that it is better to stick with defaults
than have functional problems. Also it can be a tradeoff where performance
improvement at some places is balanced by very slow functionality elsewhere.