Re: slow as molasses

From:
bob <bob@coolgroups.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<25f900ed-8e2c-45a4-8368-8658cdeefdbb@s9g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
Looks like you pretty much figured it out. Kudos to you.

Here is the new code (which is maybe about 100x faster):

    float[] getVertices2(String filename) {

        try {
            AssetManager am = this.getResources().getAssets();
            InputStream is = am.open(filename);
            BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);

            StreamTokenizer st = new StreamTokenizer(bis);
            st.nextToken();
            int numfloats = (int) st.nval;
            float[] f = new float[(int) numfloats];

            int token = 0;
            int ctr = 0;

            while ((token = st.nextToken()) == StreamTokenizer.TT_NUMBER)
                f[ctr++] = (float) st.nval;

            return f;

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }

    }

Thanks so much.

On Oct 4, 12:30 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article
<e160619b-d172-4986-8e05-880d27473...@k15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,

 bob <b...@coolgroups.com> wrote:

So, I wrote some code, but it is slow as molasses. Any easy ways to
speed this up?

[...]

                   Scanner s = new Scanner(is);


[...]

After measuring, buffering and considering double, helpfully
suggested in adjacent answers, StreamTokenizer [1] may prove
measurably faster than Scanner [2]. One caveat: StreamTokenizer
can't parse scientific notation. Workaround's are possible [3,4],
although I haven't tested any.

Focusing on just the parsing, the example below produces the
following results:

Token: 5165000
Scan: 681903000
Token: 427000
Scan: 185379000
Token: 878000
Scan: 63467000
Token: 398000
Scan: 63480000
Token: 570000
Scan: 62084000

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StreamTokenizer;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class ScannerTest {

    private static final Random r = new Random();
    private static final int N = 10000;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(N);
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
            sb.append(r.nextGaussian());
            sb.append('\n');
        }
        String s = sb.toString();
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            long start = System.nanoTime();
            tokenize(s);
            System.out.println("Token: " + (System.nanoTime()=

 - start));

            start = System.nanoTime();
            scan(s);
            System.out.println("Scan: " + (System.nanoTime=

() - start));

        }
    }

    private static void tokenize(String s) {
        StreamTokenizer st = new StreamTokenizer(new StringRead=

er(s));

        int token = 0;
        try {
            while ((token = st.nextToken())
                    == StreamTokenizer.TT_NUMBER)=

 {

                double d = st.nval;
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace(System.err);
        }
    }

    private static void scan(String s) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(s);
        while (scanner.hasNextDouble()) {
            double d = scanner.nextDouble();
        }
        scanner.close();
    }

}

[1]<http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/io/StreamTokenizer.=

....>

[2]<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2082174>
[3]<http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4079180>
[4]<http://www.resplendent.com/StlFileParser.java>

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<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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