Re: Hash table performance
On 21 Lis, 19:33, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
I'm having trouble getting Java's hash tables to run as fast as .NET's.
Specifically, the following program is 32x slower than the equivalent
on .NET:
import java.util.Hashtable;
public class Hashtbl {
public static void main(String args[]){
Hashtable hashtable = new Hashtable();
for(int i=1; i<=10000000; ++i) {
double x = i;
hashtable.put(x, 1.0 / x);
}
System.out.println("hashtable(100.0) = " + hashtable.get(10=
0.0));
}
}
My guess is that this is because the JVM is boxing every floating point
number individually in the hash table due to type erasure whereas .NET
creates a specialized data structure specifically for a float->float hash
table with the floats unboxed. Consequently, the JVM is doing enormously
numbers of allocations whereas .NET is not.
Is that correct?
Hi Jon
You are using Hashtable instead of HashMap - probably the performance
loss you've observed is due to synchronization (though "fat"
synchronization might be optimized away in case of single thread you
still pay the price, though lower). If you took a look at JavaDoc,
you'd notice that HashTable methods are synchronized As of boxing, you
are correct (though there is no type erasure in your example because
you did not specify type parameters at all) but I suspect that these
costs are not the most contributing factor to overall poor
performance. I'd blame synchronization in the first place.
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