This is a simple Juce project to test Juce 8 Direct2D rendering speeds. There are two pre-compiled binaries, one has been compiled using the last develop of JUCE 7.12, the other has been compiled using Matt Gonzalez' JUCE 8.06 fork with some improvements regarding DropShadow. https://github.com/mattgonzalez/JUCE/tree/direct2d-2025
This test creates a "smoke" animation based mainly on the DropShadow class.