I am running some micro benchmarks on Java list iteration code. I have used -XX:+PrintCompilation, and -verbose:gc flags to ensure that nothing is happening in the background when the timing is being run. However, I see something in the output which I cannot understand.
Here's the code, I am running the benchmark on:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
public class PerformantIteration {
private static int theSum = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Starting microbenchmark on iterating over collections with a call to size() in each iteration");
List<Integer> nums = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for(int i=0; i<50000; i++) {
nums.add(i);
}
System.out.println("Warming up ...");
//warmup... make sure all JIT comliling is done before the actual benchmarking starts
for(int i=0; i<10; i++) {
iterateWithConstantSize(nums);
iterateWithDynamicSize(nums);
}
//actual
System.out.println("Starting the actual test");
long constantSizeBenchmark = iterateWithConstantSize(nums);
long dynamicSizeBenchmark = iterateWithDynamicSize(nums);
System.out.println("Test completed... printing results");
System.out.println("constantSizeBenchmark : " + constantSizeBenchmark);
System.out.println("dynamicSizeBenchmark : " + dynamicSizeBenchmark);
System.out.println("dynamicSizeBenchmark/constantSizeBenchmark : " + ((double)dynamicSizeBenchmark/(double)constantSizeBenchmark));
}
private static long iterateWithDynamicSize(List<Integer> nums) {
int sum=0;
long start = System.nanoTime();
for(int i=0; i<nums.size(); i++) {
// appear to do something useful
sum += nums.get(i);
}
long end = System.nanoTime();
setSum(sum);
return end-start;
}
private static long iterateWithConstantSize(List<Integer> nums) {
int count = nums.size();
int sum=0;
long start = System.nanoTime();
for(int i=0; i<count; i++) {
// appear to do something useful
sum += nums.get(i);
}
long end = System.nanoTime();
setSum(sum);
return end-start;
}
// invocations to this method simply exist to fool the VM into thinking that we are doing something useful in the loop
private static void setSum(int sum) {
theSum = sum;
}
}
Here's the output.
152 1 java.lang.String::charAt (33 bytes)
160 2 java.lang.String::indexOf (151 bytes)
165 3Starting microbenchmark on iterating over collections with a call to size() in each iteration java.lang.String::hashCode (60 bytes)
171 4 sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder::encodeArrayLoop (490 bytes)
183 5
java.lang.String::lastIndexOf (156 bytes)
197 6 java.io.UnixFileSystem::normalize (75 bytes)
200 7 java.lang.Object::<init> (1 bytes)
205 8 java.lang.Number::<init> (5 bytes)
206 9 java.lang.Integer::<init> (10 bytes)
211 10 java.util.ArrayList::add (29 bytes)
211 11 java.util.ArrayList::ensureCapacity (58 bytes)
217 12 java.lang.Integer::valueOf (35 bytes)
221 1% performance.api.PerformantIteration::main @ 21 (173 bytes)
Warming up ...
252 13 java.util.ArrayList::get (11 bytes)
252 14 java.util.ArrayList::rangeCheck (22 bytes)
253 15 java.util.ArrayList::elementData (7 bytes)
260 2% performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithConstantSize @ 19 (59 bytes)
268 3% performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithDynamicSize @ 12 (57 bytes)
272 16 performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithConstantSize (59 bytes)
278 17 performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithDynamicSize (57 bytes)
Starting the actual test
Test completed... printing results
constantSizeBenchmark : 301688
dynamicSizeBenchmark : 782602
dynamicSizeBenchmark/constantSizeBenchmark : 2.5940773249184588
I don't understand these four lines from the output.
260 2% performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithConstantSize @ 19 (59 bytes)
268 3% performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithDynamicSize @ 12 (57 bytes)
272 16 performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithConstantSize (59 bytes)
278 17 performance.api.PerformantIteration::iterateWithDynamicSize (57 bytes)
- Why are both these methods being compiled twice ?
- How do I read this output... what do the various numbers mean ?
