Eu estou fazendo um programa que requer pelo menos 24 screenshots por segundo para ser capturado. Atualmente, com o código abaixo, estou obtendo apenas 1 por cada ~ 94 milissegundos, portanto, cerca de 10 por segundo.

Eu preferiria não usar nenhuma biblioteca de terceiros porque estou tentando mantê-la o menor possível, mas se obtivesse um aumento significativo no desempenho, estaria disposto a fazê-lo. Também estou tentando manter essa plataforma independente, mas, novamente, se for um aumento de desempenho realmente significativo, estarei disposto a mantê-la limitada ao Windows.

edit: Eu já tentei de duas formas diferentes também; usando um trecho encontrado no site oracles e o apontado nos comentários abaixo. Todos os três levaram aproximadamente o mesmo tempo, 2,1-2,2 milhões de nanossegundos, o que é bastante ineficiente.

public abstract class Benchmark {

    private final int iterations;

    public Benchmark(int iterations) {
        this.iterations = iterations;
    }

    public abstract void logic();

    public void start() {
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        for (int iteration = 0; iteration < iterations; iteration++) {
            long iterationStart = System.nanoTime();
            logic();
            System.out.println("iteration: " + iteration + " took: " + (System.nanoTime() - iterationStart) + " nanoseconds.");
        }
        long total = (System.nanoTime() - start);
        System.out.println(iterations + " iterations took: " + total + " nanoseconds.  Average iteration was: " + (total / iterations));
    }
}

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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;

public class RobotBenchmark extends Benchmark {

    private final Robot robot;
    private final Rectangle screen;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Benchmark benchmark;
        try {
            benchmark = new RobotBenchmark(24);
            benchmark.start();
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public RobotBenchmark(int iterations) throws AWTException {
        super(iterations);
        robot = new Robot();
        screen = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize());
    }

    @Override
    public void logic() {
        robot.createScreenCapture(screen);
    }

}

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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.GraphicsDevice;
import java.awt.HeadlessException;
import java.awt.Rectangle;

public class DirectRobotBenchmark extends Benchmark {

    private final GraphicsDevice device;
    private final Rectangle screenRectangle;
    private final DirectRobot robot;

    private int[] screen;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Benchmark benchmark;
        try {
            benchmark = new DirectRobotBenchmark(24);
            benchmark.start();
        } catch (HeadlessException | AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public DirectRobotBenchmark(int iterations) throws HeadlessException, AWTException {
        super(iterations);
        device = DirectRobot.getDefaultScreenDevice();
        screenRectangle = new Rectangle(1920, 1080);
        robot = new DirectRobot(device);
        screen = new int[screenRectangle.width * screenRectangle.height];
    }

    @Override
    public void logic() {
        screen = robot.getRGBPixels(screenRectangle);
    }
}

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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.peer.RobotPeer;

import sun.awt.SunToolkit;

@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
public class RobotPeerBenchmark extends Benchmark {

    private final SunToolkit toolkit;
    private final RobotPeer peer;
    private final Rectangle screenRectangle;

    private int[] screen;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Benchmark robotPeerBenchmark = new RobotPeerBenchmark(24);
            robotPeerBenchmark.start();
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public RobotPeerBenchmark(int iterations) throws AWTException {
        super(iterations);
        toolkit = (SunToolkit) Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
        peer = toolkit.createRobot(new Robot(), GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice());
        screenRectangle = new Rectangle(toolkit.getScreenSize());
        screen = new int[screenRectangle.width * screenRectangle.height];
    }

    @Override
    public void logic() {
        screen = peer.getRGBPixels(screenRectangle);
    }
}