Re: replace extended characters
On 02/11/2011 06:11 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
My version reads the entire file into RAM in one I/O. You could
modify it to read one line of a file at it a time. For the code to do
that talk to http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html
By making whacking huge buffers, you can ensure the bottleneck is the
CPU. I use a big switch statement. For extra speed you could use an
array lookup of the replacement string for each char. The
compiler/JVM is not all that clever about generating code for switch
statements.
If the file is very large (on the order of 1GB or larger), you may have
paging bottlenecks and the mere bottleneck of having to wait for every
block to be loaded into memory before doing any work, so you spend a
large amount of time in I/O wait unable to do anything at all. I suspect
that using mmap'd-like API (i.e., java.nio.MappedByteBuffer) would be
more efficient, especially if the kernel decides to be nice and preload
pages without being in page fault.
The Java compiler will make switch statements into a straight jump table
if it's dense enough, but jump tables can wreak havoc on caches and
branch predicting, so the JIT may unroll jump tables into better
constructs at runtime.
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