Re: Hash table performance
Jon Harrop wrote:
markspace wrote:
Marcin Rze??nicki wrote:
That could well be hidden in GC/heap resizing costs if he did not
allocate Java heap properly. I prevented these effects mostly from
occurring by running this example with -Xms512m -Xmx512m.
I ran my test (18 seconds for Jon's code on a 32 bit laptop)
This is a 2x quadcore 2.0GHz Intel Xeon E5405. What is you CPU?
Intel Core Duo T2600 (2.16 GHz).
2 Gigs of main memory installed. 667MHz - 2 DIMM Slots (2 x 1GB).
$ time java Hashtbl
This obviously includes the start-up time of the JVM. That's not the
runtime of your algorithm.
Try this:
class HashM
{
public static void main( String... args )
{
long start = System.nanoTime();
HashMap<Double,Double> hashM = new HashMap<Double, Double>();
for( int i = 1; i <= 10000000; ++i ) {
double x = i;
hashM.put( x, 1.0 / x );
}
long end = System.nanoTime();
out.println( "HashMap time: "+ (end-start)/1000000 );
out.println( "hashmap(100.0) = " +
hashM.get( 100.0 ) );
}
}
I'm also curious: what runs the F# runtime under Unix? Which version of
Unix are you using? Are you dual booting or running Cygwin?
I'm still suspecting that it's differences in the environment (drivers
under Unix/Cygwin vs. Microsoft) that make the most difference in your
observed times.
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