Re: Optiimising StringBuilder Size revisited
On Sep 22, 3:32 pm, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Lew wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
Indeed, since StringBuffers are generally fairly short-lived, the worr=
y is
not really about using up RAM, it's about generating garbage and makin=
g the
collector run more often that it otherwise would. Again, a CPU cost.
Mitigating that, the GC for a young generation with nearly all short-li=
ved
objects is fast. The collector is optimized for the use case where n=
early
everything dies before a minor collection.
By filling the young generation with dead objects, you incur more frequ=
ent GC
cycles that take very little time each. Just a copy of the few remai=
ning
live objects in the nursery, and Bob's your uncle.
Discounting the effect of Hotspot on inlining the StringBuilder operati=
ons to
where perhaps they have no impact on heap at all.
All well and good.
But when Roedy actually tried it, he made his app run 10% faster.
With the "-server" option to the JVM?
Not having seen the experiment or the data it used, nor what JVM
options pertained, I don't know how his results generalize to other
situations.
--
Lew
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