To finish off this topic, I've also created a benchmarker in native code using a GTK widget - with some interesting results. I've included the detailed results below, but it seems that JNI overhead is doubling the times for simple java2d operations. I tested arcs, cubic curves, lines, and rectangles. Ellipses are special cases of arcs, and quadratic curves of cubic curves, so I skipped those. _Arc_ Native: 478 Classpath: 586 Ratio: 0.82 _Cubic curve_ Native: 612 Classpath: 1105 Ratio: 0.55 _Line_ Native: 108 Classpath: 247 Ratio: 0.44 _Rectangle_ Native: 120 Classpath: 364 Ratio: 0.33 _Arc - Fill_ Native: 314 Classpath: 638 Ratio: 0.49 _Rectangle - Fill_ Native: 10 Classpath: 24 Ratio: 0.42 Francis
