Re: make printing to file faster
Vlad Ciubotariu wrote:
I'm printing a list of arrays of int to a file. The performance of the
code below is pretty bad. Any suggestions on how to improve it?
thanks
vlad
try {
PrintStream out = new PrintStream(inputFile);
Peculiar name for an output file ...
out.println("p cnf " + numVars + " " + numClauses);
for (Clause c : clauses) {
for (int literal : c.getLiterals()) {
out.print(literal);
out.print(" ");
}
out.println(0);
}
for (Clause c : constraints) {
for (int literal : c.getLiterals()) {
out.print(literal);
out.print(" ");
}
out.println(0);
}
out.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Could not write clauses to file: " + e.getMessage());
}
And this is the performance for large repetitions:
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)
Unless I've misunderstood, this says that the output methods
used 14665 ms or 1.4% of the total time. The total time was in
the neighborhood of seventeen and a half minutes. If you made
the output infinitely fast so it used no time at all, you would
save not quite fifteen seconds and the total time would still be
more than seventeen minutes ...
Are you sure you're optimizing the right part of the program?
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