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 21:45:22 +0200
Message-ID:
<jumu0i$luo$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)
            {


There is problem, as queue_ is not protected under lock.

                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%).


This is version with array (identical implementation
as ArrayBlockingQueue in Java), instead of deque (I
used atomic type for count_). This executes about same speed as Java
as atomic type slows it down a bit.
Sadly, no noticing difference between deque and array.

#include <condition_variable>
#include <mutex>
#include <thread>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <atomic>

template <class T>
class BlockingQueue{
public:
    BlockingQueue(unsigned cap)
    :
    queue_((T*)new char[cap*sizeof(T)]),
    insPos_(0),
    extPos_(0),
    count_(0),
    capacity_(cap)
    {
    }
    BlockingQueue(const BlockingQueue&)=delete;
    BlockingQueue& operator=(const BlockingQueue&)=delete;
    ~BlockingQueue()
    {
        delete[] (char*)queue_;
    }
    void put(T t)
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_, std::try_to_lock);
        int retry = 0;
        while (!lock.owns_lock())
        {
            if (count_ > capacity_/4 && ++retry < 1000)
            {
                std::this_thread::yield();
            }
            else
            {
                lock.lock();
            }
        }
        c_full_.wait(lock, [this]{return count_ < capacity_;});
        new(queue_+insPos_)T(std::move(t));
        inc(insPos_);
        ++count_;
        if (count_ == 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 (count_ < 3*capacity_/4 && ++retry < 1000)
            {
                std::this_thread::yield();
            }
            else
            {
                lock.lock();
            }
        }
        c_empty_.wait(lock, [this]{return count_ > 0 ;});
        T tmp = std::move(queue_[extPos_]);
        queue_[extPos_].~T();
        inc(extPos_);
        --count_;
        if (count_ == capacity_-1)
            c_full_.notify_one();
        return tmp;
    }
    bool empty()
    {
        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(m_);
        return count_ == 0;
    }
private:
    void inc(unsigned& i)
    {
        ++i;
        if(i == capacity_)i = 0;
    }
    std::mutex m_;
    std::condition_variable c_empty_,c_full_;
    T* queue_;
    unsigned insPos_,extPos_;
    std::atomic<unsigned> count_;
    const unsigned capacity_;
};
  
int main()
{
    BlockingQueue<int> produced(1000);
    const int nitems = 100000000;
    std::srand(12345);
    

    std::function<void()> f_prod = [&]() {
        int i = nitems;
        while(i-- > 0){
            produced.put(i);
        }
    };
    
    std::thread producer1(f_prod);

    std::function<void()> f_cons = [&]() {
        const int size = 10000;
        int arr[size];
        int i = nitems;
        while(i-- > 0)
        {
            arr[std::rand()%size] =
            produced.take();
        }
    };
    
    std::thread consumer1(f_cons);

    producer1.join();
    consumer1.join();
}

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Arafat, 1974?
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