Re: Clean way to write Double into String without the trailing ".0"
?
Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
private static final NumberFormat s_fmt=
new DecimalFormat("0.################");
...
final String str;
synchronized (s_fmt)
{
str= s_fmt.format(d);
}
...
In a heavily multi-threaded, high-throughput environment that synchronized
static formatter could be quite a choke point. If that turns out to be the
case, one could use
str = new DecimalFormat("0.################").format(d);
Naturally you'd want to elevate the string to a final constant either way.
This assumes you don't mind keeping the decimal point when the fractional part
is zero.
Java has come a long way in optimization of uncontended locks, but contended
ones are inherently a bitch. It can be astonishing how much time is spent
waiting to acquire a lock in a contentious scenario, to the severe detriment
of throughput. On projects where I've seen such things actually measured, a
highly-contended synchronization lock has been the major throughput killer,
beating even database I/O despite the latter being very poorly handled in some
cases. And that was with Java 5.
If the formatter is lightly touched, then the lock won't be such an issue.
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