Hi Christian, Roman, > How can I run the benchmarks? I'd like to run it with CACAO. >From your classpath directory (/usr/local/classpath/share/classpath by default) you can invoke it using "cacao gnu.classpath.examples.java2d.J2dBenchmarkGUI" > Yeah sure, most of the work is done in native code, so it doesn't really > matter if the VM is an interpreter, completely compiled or jit. I was talking to fitzsim yesterday, and we also figured that it was down to Cairo. I spent a bit of time trying to install cairo with glitz, to see what the improvement would be, but had no luck. Francis