I\'ve been testing my app in Java 7 on Mac OS X. It\'s running noticeable sluggish. I used VisualVM to try and track down where the bottleneck was and found linear interpo
I think you've hit the nail on the head. In all likelihood the Apple provided JVM leveraged hardware acceleration. You might ask over on the Porters group mailing list of the Mac Port sub-project of OpenJDK.