Re: Question about Pattern.matcher performance differences between Java6 and Java7/8

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:51:53 +0100
Message-ID:
<bi2n3aF2g1qU1@mid.individual.net>
On 26.12.2013 02:24, Stefan Ram wrote:

Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> writes:

Neither can determine real GC load. What ends up happening is that yo=

u

pull a chunk of suspect code out of your app and run it by itself in a=

controlled environment to benchmark it. The alternative is using a


   Sometimes, one wants to compare two versions of suspect code,
   one of which has some new =BBoptimization=AB, to see whether that
   optimization helps indeed as much as hoped for.

   When one needs to optimize, the application must be observably
   slow. That means: macroscopically slow, so slow that one can
   measure it using a stop watch or at least detect he slowness
   somehow.

   In this case, one can compare the two versions in-place. That is:
   run the app with the old version and then with the new version.
   This will include =BBreal GC load=AB and all.


I'm not sure I agree to the "real GC load": if you artificially slow the =

application down to a level where you can use a stop watch you have
already changed behavior dramatically and all bets are off.

Or did you mean it the other way round: you can only apply the stop
watch approach if the application is so slow?

Kind regards

    robert

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