Why should I use double-buffering for animation?

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Why should I use double-buffering for animation?

Look at the performance between these two examples. The first one (Main1.java) will directly write to the graphics context and results in lots of flickering. The second one (Main2.java) uses instead to an intermediate buffer.

Main1.java:

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Main2.java:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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