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

From:
Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.programming.threads
Date:
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:59:20 +0200
Message-ID:
<juht3o$a3a$1@news.albasani.net>
I have played little bit with new C++11 features and compared,
java performance to c++.
Actually this was meant to be GC vs RAII memory management,
but boiled down to speed of BlockingQueue class in java,
and mine in c++.
It seems that java implementation is so much more efficient
but I don't know why. I even tried c++ without dynamic
memory management (except queue itself) and that is *even slower*.
Must be some quirks with a queue ;)

These are timings:
(java openjdk 1.7)
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time java consprod

real 0m13.411s
user 0m19.853s
sys 0m0.960s

(c++ gcc 4.6.3)
bmaxa@maxa:~/examples$ time ./consprod

real 0m28.726s
user 0m34.518s
sys 0m6.800s

Example programs follow (I think implementations of
blocking queues are similar):
// java
import java.util.concurrent.*;
import java.util.Random;

class Vars{
public final static int nitems = 100000000;
public final static Random rnd = new Random(12345);
public final static int size = 10000;
}

class Producer implements Runnable {
   private final BlockingQueue<Integer> queue;
   Producer(BlockingQueue<Integer> q) { queue = q; }
   public void run() {
     try {
       int i = Vars.nitems;
       while(i-- > 0) { queue.put(produce(i)); }
     } catch (InterruptedException ex)
     {
       
     }
   }
   Integer produce(int i) { return new Integer(i); }
 }

 class Consumer implements Runnable {
   private final BlockingQueue<Integer> queue;
   Consumer(BlockingQueue<Integer> q)
   {
    queue = q;
   }
   public void run() {
     try {
       Integer[] arr = new Integer[10000];
       int i = Vars.nitems;
       while(i-- > 0) { consume(queue.take(),arr); }
     } catch (InterruptedException ex)
     {
     }
   }
   void consume(Integer x, Integer[] arr)
   {
    arr[Vars.rnd.nextInt(Vars.size)] = x;
   }
 }

 public class consprod {
   public static void main(String [] args) {
   try{
     BlockingQueue<Integer> q = new ArrayBlockingQueue<Integer>(100000);
     Producer p = new Producer(q);
     Consumer c = new Consumer(q);
     new Thread(p).start();
     new Thread(c).start();
     } catch(Exception e)
     {
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
   }
 }
//-----------------------------------------
// c++
#include <condition_variable>
#include <mutex>
#include <thread>
#include <deque>
#include <cstdlib>

template <class T>
class BlockingQueue{
public:
    BlockingQueue(unsigned cap):capacity_(cap)
    {
    }
    void put(T t)
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_);
        while(queue_.size() >= capacity_)c_full_.wait(lock);
        queue_.push_back(std::move(t));
        c_empty_.notify_one();
    }
    T take()
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_);
        while(queue_.empty())c_empty_.wait(lock);
        T tmp = std::move(queue_.front());
        queue_.pop_front();
        c_full_.notify_one();
        return std::move(tmp);
    }
    bool empty()
    {
        std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(m_);
        return queue_.empty();
    }
private:
    std::mutex m_;
    std::condition_variable c_empty_,c_full_;
    std::deque<T> queue_;
    unsigned capacity_;
};
 
int main()
{
    BlockingQueue<std::unique_ptr<int>> produced(100000);
    const int nitems = 100000000;
    std::srand(12345);
    

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

    std::function<void()> f_cons = [&]() {
        const int size = 10000;
        std::unique_ptr<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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