How can you make idle processors pick up java work?

From:
qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:14:12 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<jv80k4$9kk$1@speranza.aioe.org>
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How slow is the NL processing?

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Does it make any sense to read lines in one thread and pass each off

to one of the iPrx-1 other threads that might run on separate processors?
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 I don't think this would make sense. All sentences are short and all I
need to do is basically scan them and use look-up tables to do some tinkering
with the code points. The scheduling of threads and constant context switching
will most probably make things slower
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 OK this is the piece of the code I am trying to optimize and the results
I get, using a large enough file with sentences:
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 http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html
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 http://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/downloads/deu_news_2008_10M-text.tar.gz
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 inside of the tar ball there is a file with just sentences:
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$ ls -l deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1235804164 May 28 2011
 deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt

$ md5sum -b deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
23041587b6414d1a1a56c9c389d3c18f *deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt

$ wc -l deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
10000000 deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
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 Again, do you know of any faster way to go about reading the sentences of
such large files and getting their code points?
 lbrtchx
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import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;

// __
public class NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test{
 private static final String aNWLn = System.getProperty("line.separator");
// __
 public static void main(String[] aArgs){

  if((aArgs != null) && (aArgs.length == 1)){
   long lTm00 = System.currentTimeMillis();
   long lLns = 0;
   int iTtlRdKdPnts = 0;
   BufferedReader BfR = null;
   Path IFlPth = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(aArgs[0]);
   long lIFlL = IFlPth.toFile().length();
   int iKdPnt, iSxL;

   StringBuilder aBldr = new StringBuilder(1024);
// __
   try{
    BfR = Files.newBufferedReader(IFlPth, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
    String aSx = BfR.readLine();
    while(aSx != null){
     iSxL = aSx.length();
     if(iSxL > 0){
      for(int i = 0; (i < iSxL); ++i){
       iKdPnt = aSx.codePointAt(i); ++iTtlRdKdPnts;
       aBldr.appendCodePoint(iKdPnt);
      }
// __
      aBldr.delete(0, aBldr.length());
     }// (iSxL > 0)
     ++lLns;
     aSx = BfR.readLine();
    }// (aSx != null)

    BfR.close();
// __
    System.err.println("// __ reading |" + lIFlL + "| bytes long text file
with |" + lLns + "| lines took |" + (System.currentTimeMillis() - lTm00) +
"| (ms)");
    System.err.println("// __ iTtlRdKdPnts: |" + iTtlRdKdPnts + "|");
   }catch(IOException IOX) { IOX.printStackTrace(System.err); }
  }
  else{ System.err.println("// __ usage:" + aNWLn + aNWLn +
" java NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test \"<text file>\"" + aNWLn); }
 }
}

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$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_02-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)
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$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4051236 719224 3332012 0 22008 408260
-/+ buffers/cache: 288956 3762280
Swap: 3038424 0 3038424
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$ javac -encoding utf8 NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test.java
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$ date; java -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -Xincgc -Dfile.encoding=utf8
NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test /media/sdb1/tmp/eng_news_2006_10M-sentences.txt;
date;
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Tue Jul 31 02:05:04 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |41922| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:05:46 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:05:51 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |27299| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:06:19 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:06:22 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |28180| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:06:50 UTC 2012
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Tue Jul 31 02:26:43 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |35388| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:27:18 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:27:21 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |38155| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:28:00 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:30:40 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
 |41099| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:31:21 UTC 2012

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