Re: make printing to file faster

From:
Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@sun.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 06 May 2008 16:47:17 -0400
Message-ID:
<1210106825.706235@news1nwk>
Vlad Ciubotariu wrote:

Thanks for the reply!


     You're welcome, but please learn not to top-post: Write
responses after the text you respond to, so that somebody
reading the message from top to bottom can understand it.

1.6% - 16,459 ms - 1 inv. ca.uwaterloo.watform.ckt.sat.SatSolver.solve

You're right about this one, the 1.6% will get larger after the program
runs for a while. It is currently skewed by a previously executed job.

The problem is that out of 16.5 seconds spend to perform a satisfiability
check, 14.5s are spend printing clauses to a file.


     The measurements you quoted earlier were

  1.6% - 16,459 ms - 1 inv. ca.uwaterloo.watform.ckt.sat.SatSolver.solve
  0.8% - 8,289 ms - 664,818 inv. java.io.PrintStream.print(int)
  0.4% - 4,091 ms - 249,391 inv. java.io.PrintStream.println(int)
  0.2% - 2,275 ms - 664,818 inv. java.io.PrintStream.print(java.lang.String)


.... from which I estimate the total time as

    (16,459 ms + 8,289 ms + 4,091 ms + 2,275 ms)
        / (1.6% + 0.8% + 0.4% + 0.2%)

    = 31,114 ms / 0.03 ~= 1,037 sec ~= 17.3 minutes

.... and I don't understand why you are so concerned about
the 0.25 minutes of output when the program's other activities
consume more than 17 minutes.

--
Eric.Sosman@sun.com

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