Filling with transparency

Hello,

What is the fastest way to fill a rectangle with a transparent color?
Simply using java.awt.Graphics and java.awt.Color like this is not fast enough:

Graphics g;
g.setColor(new Color(100, 100, 100, 100));
g.fillRect(new Rectangle(0, 0, 100, 100));

Is there a faster way to do this?

Thanks.

Why would you want something faster? The above should be lightning fast. If you are having problems with painting slowing down things, I'd suggest profiling your code a bit to determine the bottleneck (I somewhat doubt the above is - and if it is recommend you post an SSCCE demonstrating the problem)

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Why would you want something faster? The above should be lightning fast. If you are having problems with painting slowing down things, I'd suggest profiling your code a bit to determine the bottleneck (I somewhat doubt the above is - and if it is recommend you post an SSCCE demonstrating the problem)

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I'm trying to fill the entire screen with this transparent color, and so it takes about 10 milliseconds every draw loop, which, while it may not seem like much, is far too long and creates major lag. To find this time I simply used something like the following:

Graphics g;
g.setColor(new Color(0, 0, 0, 100));
long before = System.nanoTime();
g.fillRect(0, 0, 1600, 900);
System.out.println((System.nanoTime() - before)/1000000);

And this gives me 10 or 11.

Well, its not that much, which again makes me wonder if this is indeed the bottleneck. Again, its hard to give detailed advice without detailed context.