Re: Do you use a garbage collector (java vs c++ difference in "new")

From:
Mirek Fidler <cxl@ntllib.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:02:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<5d096d56-92cf-49da-b242-d5ef183c7be2@v26g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 11, 3:37 am, Razii <DONTwhatever...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:35:27 +0300, Juha Nieminen

<nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote:

Razii wrote:

In C++, each "new" allocation request
will be sent to the operating system, which is slow.


 That's blatantly false.


Well, my friend, I have proven you wrong. Razi has been victorious
once again :)

Time: 2125 ms (C++)
Time: 328 ms (java)


What do you think you have proved? I see that MSC allocator is slower
than Java's, all right. But you have not proved that it is calling
system directly.

Besides, the code is not equivalent.

--- c++--

#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Test {
public:
    Test (int c) {count = c;}
    virtual ~Test() { }
    int count;

};

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

        clock_t start=clock();
       for (int i=0; i<=10000000; i++) {
        Test *test = new Test(i);
        if (i % 5000000 == 0)
                cout << test;


// you need to add here
          delete test;
// because Java does not hold reference to created pointer, so it gets
GCed soon

   }
  clock_t endt=clock();
  std::cout <<"Time: " <<
     double(endt-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC * 1000 << " ms\n";

}

-- java ---

import java.util.*;

class Test {
    Test (int c) {count = c;}
    int count;

public static void main(String[] arg) {

        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();

        for (int i=0; i<=10000000; i++) {
        Test test = new Test(i);
        if (i % 5000000 == 0)
                System.out.println (test);
   }
   long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
   System.out.println("Time: " + (end - start) + " ms");

  }

}


If you have time, fix and try with U++.... (it has overloaded new/
delete).

(Note: I do not know what the result will be, I guess it will still be
slower than Java, I am just interested :)

Mirek

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