MATLAB: Do graphics run slower on the Mac in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) than they did in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)

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I have a program that displays a simple animation on the screen, with which the user interacts. The animation is very simple, although there are also several hundred other static objects (mostly rectangle and line objects) on the screen at the same time.
When I run it on a Mac, the animation runs much slower, and the subject interaction is very sluggish. I tried using opengl, painters, and zbuffer on the Mac, and they are all slow. It runs fine in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1).

Best Answer

MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) no longer creates X11 figure windows. Instead it creates Java figure windows, which may account for your performance decrease.
If you are using a version of MATLAB prior to MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b), you may work around this issue by turning java figures off using the following command. Please note that this workaround will not be valid after MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b) as this feature will not be available:
feature('javafigures',0);
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