JDK-8166809 : WebView performance regression in 8u60
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: web
  • Affected Version: 8u60,9
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Submitted: 2016-09-27
  • Updated: 2016-12-19
  • Resolved: 2016-12-19
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JDK 9
9Resolved
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-8166999 - Update to newer version of WebKit
Description
Test code is available from https://github.com/larc63/WebView-Performance

As noted in the github repo, performance reduced by 2.3x between 8u51 and 8u60:

Update	Time (ms)
1.8.0_40	1771
1.8.0_45	1693
1.8.0_51	1716
1.8.0_60	3969
1.8.0_65	3958
1.8.0_66	4059
1.8.0_74	3862
1.8.0_92	4008
Comments
Enabled JIT in JDK-8166999 has resolved this regression 1.8.0_112-ea - 5710 9-ea - 148 - 5240 (With JIT disabled) 9-ea - 148 + JDK-8166999 - 2122 (WIth JIT enabled)
19-12-2016
Removing multiple 8u affects versions (policy is to keep the one earliest per release family).
27-09-2016