Performance tuning on socket and message packaging

From:

Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:51:58 +0800

Message-ID:

<m3veann8xd.fsf@gmail.com>

Our java program uses socket to send a lot of data out, and the types of
these data are integer, long, and string. Before we send them out, we
have to transform integers, long, and string to a byte array(correct me,
if it is *not* necessary), and then send them out like this,

socket.getOutputStream().write(datas);
socket.getOutputStream().flush();

After some profiling, we find the performance bottleneck of our program
is in Util.int2bytes(int), which is called nearly 500,000 times,

public static byte[] int2bytes(int nNum)
{
    byte[] bytesRet = new byte[4];
    bytesRet[0] = (byte) ((nNum >> 24) & 0xFF);
    bytesRet[1] = (byte) ((nNum >> 16) & 0xFF);
    bytesRet[2] = (byte) ((nNum >> 8) & 0xFF);
    bytesRet[3] = (byte) (nNum & 0xFF);
    return bytesRet;
}

I also find that the "new" statement is very expensive. How could I
tune my program?

Another bottleneck is located on the socket write and flush. How could
I make socket part in my program efficient? Any comments are welcome.

Best Regards

--
Yao Qi <qiyaoltc AT gmail DOT com> GNU/Linux Developer
http://duewayqi.googlepages.com/

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