Improving performance of code

From:
"ruds" <rudranee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
6 Apr 2007 20:46:34 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175917594.394914.13880@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
Hi,
I'm reading a file and doing some operations on it..It is a huge file
going in GB's.....
The code is working correctly but is very slow....How do i optimise
it...
My code snipnet is:
class Risk
{
   public void compare(String infile) throws IOException
    {
        cnt=0;
        for(i=0;i<qid.size();i++)
        {
            no=0;
            fr=new FileReader(infile);
            br=new BufferedReader(fr);
            while((str=br.readLine())!=null)
            {
                no++;
                if((str.startsWith("$"))||(str.startsWith("-CONT-")))
                    continue;
                else
                {
                    s2=str.substring(0,10);
                    if(s2.equals(qid.elementAt(i)))
                    {
                        cnt++;
                        start=no;
                        end=no+29;
                        quadarray(infile,start,end);
                    }

                    if((cnt==sc) && (i<qid.size()))
                    {
                        System.out.println("qid="+qid.elementAt(i));
                        cnt=0;
                        writesubcase1();
                    }
                }
            }
            fr.close();

        }

                               for(i=0;i<tid.size();i++)
        {
            no=0;
            fr=new FileReader(infile);
            br=new BufferedReader(fr);
            while((str=br.readLine())!=null)
            {
                no++;
                if((str.startsWith("$"))||(str.startsWith("-CONT-")))
                    continue;
                else
                {
                    s2=str.substring(0,10);
                    if(s2.equals(tid.elementAt(i)))
                    {
                        cnt++;
                        start=no;
                        end=no+29;
                        triaarray(infile,start,end);
                    }
                    if((cnt==sc) && (i<tid.size()))
                    {
                        System.out.println("tid="+tid.elementAt(i));
                        cnt=0;
                        writesubcase2();
                    }
                }
            }
            fr.close();
        }
    }

    public void quadarray(String ifile,int start,int end) throws
IOException
    {
        try
        {
            fr1=new FileReader(ifile);
            br1=new BufferedReader(fr1);
            line=0;
            k=0;
            x=0;
            while((str1=br1.readLine())!=null)
            {
                line++;
                if((line>=start) && (line<end))
                {
                    if(j==0)
                        quad[j][k]=str1;
                    if((k==3) ||(k==17)||(k= ))
                    {
                        val1=Double.parseDouble(str1.substring(18,36));
                        if(val1>qmax[x])
                        {
                            qmax[x]=val1;
                            x++;
                        }
                    }
                    if((k==5) ||(k==8)||(k==22)||(k==25))
                    {
                        val2=Double.parseDouble(str1.substring(54,72));
                        if(val2>qmax[x])
                        {
                            qmax[x]=val2;
                            x++;
                        }
                    }
                    if((k==11)||(k==14)||(k==28))
                    {
                        val3=Double.parseDouble(str1.substring(36,54));
                        if(val3>qmax[x])
                        {
                            qmax[x]=val3;
                            x++;
                        }
                    }
                    k++;
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        { }
    }

    public void writesubcase1() throws IOException
    {
        x=0;
        try
        {
            fw=new FileWriter("Result.txt",true);
            for(y=0;y<30;y++)
            {
                if((y==0)||(y==1)||(y==2)||(y==4)||(y==6)||(y==7)||(y==9)||
(y==10)||(y==12)||(y==13)||(y==15) || (y==16)||(y==18)||(y==19)||
                    (y==21)||(y==23)||(y==24) || (y==26)||(y==27))
                {
                    fw.write(quad[0][y]+"\n");
                    continue;
                }
                else
                {
                    if((y==3)||(y==17)||(y= ))
                    {
                        s=quad[0][y];
                        fw.write(s.substring(0,28)+qmax[x]+s.substring(37)+"\n");
                        x++;
                        continue;
                    }
                    if((y==5)||(y==8)||(y==22)||(y==25))
                    {
                        s=quad[0][y];
                        fw.write(s.substring(0,64)+qmax[x]+"\n");
                        x++;
                        continue;
                    }
                    if((y==11)||(y==14))
                    {
                        s=quad[0][y];
                        fw.write(s.substring(0,46)+qmax[x]+s.substring(55)+"\n");
                        x++;
                        continue;
                    }
                    if(y==28)
                    {
                        s=quad[0][y];
                        fw.write(s.substring(0,46)+qmax[x]+"\n");
                        x++;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            fw.close();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {}
    }

    public void triaarray(String ifile,int start,int end) throws
IOException
    {
        try
        {
            fr1=new FileReader(ifile);
            br1=new BufferedReader(fr1);
            line=0;
            while((str1=br1.readLine())!=null)
            {
                line++;
                if((line>=start) && (line<end))
                {
                    if(j==0)
                        tria[j][k]=str1;
                    if(k==2)
                    {
                        val1=Double.parseDouble(str1.substring(37,54));
                        if(val1>tmax[0])
                            tmax[0]=val1;
                    }
                    if(k==5)
                    {
                        val2=Double.parseDouble(str1.substring(19,36));
                        if(val2>tmax[1])
                            tmax[1]=val2;
                    }
                    k++;
                }
            }
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {}
    }

    public void writesubcase2()
    {
        try
        {
            fw=new FileWriter("Result.txt",true);
            for(y=0;y<7;y++)
            {
                if((y==0)||(y==1)||(y==3)||(y==4))
                {
                    fw.write(tria[0][y]+"\n");
                    continue;
                }
                if(y==2)
                {
                    s=tria[0][y];
                    fw.write(s.substring(0,47)+tmax[0]+s.substring(55)+"\n");
                    continue;
                }
                if(y==5)
                {
                    s=tria[0][y];
                    fw.write(s.substring(0,29)+tmax[1]+"\n");
                    break;
                }
            }
            fw.close();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {}
    }

    public static void main(String args[])
    {
      Risk r=new Risk();
      ipfile=args[0];

        try
        {
            r.compare(ipfile);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        { }
    }
}

The code takes a lot of time in functions Quadarray and Triaaray.
As u can see the de is very simple in these functions but still it
takes lot of time...

How do i improve it??

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