I thought that performing UI operations off the EDT could involve more issues than just performance (yes, I'm defending the rationalistic approach). It seems that there is the chance that the Slowness Detector may not detect issues, but the re-painting of the UI may be incorrect (or worse). Even though the sweeping change may be a large undertaking, it seems that it would be the best approach to prevent bugs that would be intermittent/infrequent but still very annoying.
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I thought that performing UI operations off the EDT could involve more issues than just performance (yes, I'm defending the rationalistic approach). It seems that there is the chance that the Slowness Detector may not detect issues, but the re-painting of the UI may be incorrect (or worse). Even though the sweeping change may be a large undertaking, it seems that it would be the best approach to prevent bugs that would be intermittent/infrequent but still very annoying.
--tborak 18:55, 23 October 2009 (CEST)