Re: Why is java consumer/producer so much faster than C++

From:
Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:21:26 +0200
Message-ID:
<julpem$cl9$1@news.albasani.net>
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, July 23, 2012 6:32:10 PM UTC-4, Melzzzzz wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Howard Hinnant wrote:

&gt; I made a few changes to your code:
&gt;
&gt;
&gt; On my system this sped the C++ solution up considerably (to
about &gt; 13.7 seconds). I didn&#39;t time the Java solution.

Yes, that&#39;s it, on my system:
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time ./consprod2

real 0m9.478s
user 0m10.797s
sys 0m7.196s

which is more than twice speed of original program!
(and faster than java)


At second glance I wasn't that fond of my solution and tweaked it as
below:

    void put(T t)
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_, std::try_to_lock);
        while (!lock.owns_lock())
        {
            if (queue_.size() > capacity_/4)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 3250; ++i)
                    std::this_thread::yield();
                lock.try_lock();
            }
            else
            {
                lock.lock();
                break;
            }
        }
        while(queue_.size() >= capacity_)c_full_.wait(lock);
        queue_.push_back(std::move(t));
        if (queue_.size() == 1)
            c_empty_.notify_one();
    }
    T take()
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_, std::try_to_lock);
        int retry = 0;
        while (!lock.owns_lock())
        {
            if (queue_.size() < 3*capacity_/4)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < 3250; ++i)
                    std::this_thread::yield();
                lock.try_lock();
            }
            else
            {
                lock.lock();
                break;
            }
        }
        while(queue_.empty())c_empty_.wait(lock);
        T tmp = std::move(queue_.front());
        queue_.pop_front();
        if (queue_.size() == capacity_-1)
            c_full_.notify_one();
        return tmp;
    }

I am admittedly coding to the benchmark (which is not a really great
idea). But I got the time on my system down from 13.7 seconds to
about 9.7 seconds (another 40%).


On my system speed up is not that big.
(new version)
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time ./consprod3

real 0m9.296s
user 0m10.061s
sys 0m8.069s

(old version)
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time ./consprod2

real 0m9.496s
user 0m10.917s
sys 0m7.292s
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$

(java with array assignment)
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time java consprod

real 0m16.098s
user 0m25.674s
sys 0m1.932s

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