Article:		The Perils of Image.getScaledInstance()
Subject:		BufferedImage Memory usage
Date:		2007-06-27 08:08:29
From:		swebb99
I re-wrote some code I work on for displaying maps similar to google maps. The scaling did impove however the application used a lot more memory using BufferedImage rather than getScaleInstance on a normal Image via an ImageIcon. I'm note sure if this a known problem or a bug in the 1.6 jdk !