Re: Why is Java so slow????

From:

"Daniel Dyer" <"You don't need it">

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:57:00 -0000

Message-ID:

<op.t111panm8kxvgr@jack.local>

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:28:17 -0000, Java Performance Export =

<java.performance.expert@gmail.com> wrote:

This "C" program takes about 11.5 seconds to print 50,000,000 lines or=

4.3 million lines / sec... output is to /dev/null

Compiled with:
gcc -O4 -o t t.c

=========================

t.c

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
  int lim = atoi(argv[1]);
  int i;
  for (i=1; i <= lim; i++)
    printf("this is line %d\n", i);
}
=========================

t.c

This Java class takes about 15.6 seconds to print 5,000,000 lines or
63,700 lines / sec ... 67 times slower!

======================= =

t.java

class t
{
    static public void main(String[] argv)
    {
        int lim = new Integer(argv[0]);
        int i;
        for (i=0; i < lim; i++)
            System.out.println("This is line " + i);
    }

}
======================= =

t.java

Try the Java printf so that you are at least comparing something similar=
=

(it should avoid a lot of the String allocations):

<http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/PrintStream.html#printf=
(java.lang.String, =

java.lang.Object...)>

Also, try the -server switch on the JVM. It may well inline a lot of =

those method calls that you are seeing.

Finally, disregard your results until you have considered the following =
=

Java micro-benchmarking advice posted here by Chris Uppal a while back:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_frm/thr=
ead/79219945c16fa272/7e96da29cca14efc?lnk=st>

Dan.

-- =

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