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Optimize a Swing App by Slowing It Down Swing is slow, right? That seems to be a common perception which fast Swing apps like LimeWire seem unable to shake. Even the Jackpot GUI app is sluggish these days, and we all know it cannot be that my code is at fault, right?
I think the real problem is that yours and my computers are too fast, or at least too fast relative to our customers' systems. Because software developers and quality testers tend to have very fast systems so they can multi-task effectively, an unfortunate side-effect is that they tend to run their applications faster than their customers do. As a result, it's easy to overlook inefficient and redundant GUI operations as long as the result looks and feels okay on a fast system. Slow your system down enough, however, and these problems leap out at you, demanding attention.
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