Re: Java vs C++ speed (IO & Sorting)

From:
zionztp@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<d92e4088-4496-4f58-bc2b-600352108d81@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On 22 mar, 06:32, Razii <DONTwhatever...@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:26:09 -0700 (PDT), zion...@gmail.com wrote:

Im not sure if i used the right optimization flags to compile the java
program so if its wrong please tell me how i should compile it, since
i expected to obtain similar results.


Try these verions (only IO test) with g++ (in this version java is
using nio package for reading and writing).

Let me know what time you get for Java and c++ with g++

=== java ===
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;

}


I've tried with that codes and the results changed a bit:

c++: 211 ms avg
java: 142 ms avg
Both tests using the 10x bible.

I suspected this test is not good to measure file IO speeds since in
my system (linux) after the first run the kernel seems to be
performing some kind of memory optimization so the files are actually
not read nor written from/to the HD at all.. so i tried using a 100x
bibles (430mb) file to test and the results where:

c++: 2856 ms avg
java: 16832 ms avg

So its obvious there is some problem with the timing functions because
the c++ program is taking longer than 3 sec but less than 28, after
testing both programs via the linux "time" command the average
complete execution time was:
c++ 15.97 sec.
java 16.13 sec.

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