Hello Christian, > I tested it with CACAO and it works, but it's not blazingly fast :-) Thanks. I had some hope that a JIT compiler would help a bit, but apparently not... still, at least on my system, image loading under JDK 1.5.0 is almost twice as fast as JDK 1.4.2, and JDK 1.6 beta is a little faster again. I guess Classpath will evolve as well. > And there is a problem when cairo is enabled: [...] > Anything i should debug? This is PR24211, submitted (almost) four months ago. There are also PR24116, PR24099, PR24349, and a few others to be fixed before Graphics2D becomes useable. That is why I asked about the state of the Java2D rewrite... - Norman