Editing Standard Widget Toolkit (section)

=== Performance ===
SWT was designed to be a ''high performance'' GUI toolkit; faster, more responsive and lighter on system resource usage than Swing.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aiqa/archive/2004/11/why_i_choose_sw.html |title= Why I choose SWT against Swing |first= Ozgur |last= Akan |date= November 19, 2004 |access-date= 2006-11-07 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061231140431/http://weblogs.java.net/blog/aiqa/archive/2004/11/why_i_choose_sw.html |archive-date= December 31, 2006 }}</ref>

There has been some attempted [[benchmark (computing)|benchmarking]] of SWT and Swing, which concluded that SWT should be more efficient than Swing, although the applications benchmarked in this case were not complex enough to draw solid conclusions for all possible SWT or Swing uses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t65168.html |title=Swing vs. SWT Performance – Have a Look at the Call Stacks |publisher=Javalobby.org |date=2006-03-03 |access-date=2009-10-16 |archive-date=2017-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917172003/http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t65168.html |url-status=usurped }}.</ref> A fairly thorough set of benchmarks concluded that neither Swing nor SWT outperformed the other in the general case.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cosylib.cosylab.com/pub/CSS/DOC-SWT_Vs._Swing_Performance_Comparison.pdf |title=SWT Vs. Swing Performance Comparison |first=Križnar |last=Igor |publisher=cosylab.com |date=2005-05-10 |quote=''It is hard to give a rule-of-thumb where SWT would outperform Swing, or vice versa. In some environments (e.g., Windows), SWT is a winner. In others (Linux, [[VMware]] hosting Windows), Swing and its redraw optimization outperform SWT significantly. Differences in performance are significant: factors of 2 and more are common, in either direction.'' |access-date=2008-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704103309/http://cosylib.cosylab.com/pub/CSS/DOC-SWT_Vs._Swing_Performance_Comparison.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-04 }}.</ref>