Java vs C++ speed (IO & Revisted Again)

From:
Razii <DONTwhatevere3e@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:28:56 -0500
Message-ID:
<s1i9u3la1bkrqmrhnnr9ab0h6pnis15fd6@4ax.com>
This time I used the new java.nio package for reading and writing.
Result (on my comp) are really pathetic for c++ :)

Also, since the program spends most of the time in reading and writing
the file, I removed sorting from both java and C++ version (it's
irrelevant to IO test anyway).

(for one bible.txt)

Time for reading and writing files: 94 ms (java)
Time for reading and writing files: 78 ms (java)
Time for reading and writing files: 63 ms (java)

Time for reading and writing file: 156 ms (c++)
Time for reading and writing file: 156 ms (c++)
Time for reading and writing file: 156 ms (++)

Ten bibles (43 meg)

Time for reading and writing files: 766 ms (java)
Time for reading and writing files: 766 ms (java)
Time for reading and writing files: 782 ms (java)

Time for reading and writing file: 1828 ms (c++)
Time for reading and writing file: 1734 ms (c++)
Time for reading and writing file: 1703 ms (c++)

bible.txt is here
ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu/pub/cs126/markov/textfiles/bible.txt

========= Java version ===========
import java.io.*;
import java.nio.*;
import java.nio.channels.*;

public class CopyFile
{
    public static void main(String[] arg) throws Exception
   {
  FileChannel in = new FileInputStream("bible.txt").getChannel();
  FileChannel out = new FileOutputStream("output.txt").getChannel();

            long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    in.transferTo (0, in.size(), out);
    out.close(); in.close();
    long end = System.currentTimeMillis();

       System.out.println("Time for reading and writing files: " +
(end - start) + " ms");
         
   }
}

===== C++ Version =======
#include <ctime>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
   
   std::ifstream src("bible.txt");
   std::ofstream dst("output.txt");
   clock_t start=clock();
   dst << src.rdbuf();
   clock_t endt=clock();

    std::cout <<"Time for reading and writing file: " <<
       double(endt-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC * 1000 << " ms\n";
    return 0;
}

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