Re: byte stream vs char stream buffer

From:

Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

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Date:

Sun, 11 May 2014 16:02:40 +0200

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On 11.05.2014 01:08, Roedy Green wrote:

On Sat, 10 May 2014 23:24:57 +0200, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

I find this a fairly unspecific description of the test you did. We do
not know what your test did to ensure file system caching or GC effects
did not influence the measurement etc.

the code is posted at
http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html#BUFFERSIZE

I followed a slightly different approach and modularized my test a bit
more. You can find it here:

https://gist.github.com/rklemme/fad399b5e7cc4d3b6d0c

File opening and closing is not measured. You can assume the data to
purely come from memory (vastly more mem than file size + no disk
activity shown). This was on an Xbuntu 14.04 64 bit, kernel version
3.13.0-24. No special JVM command line switches were used.

These are not particularly subtle effects. I ran five trials and took
the best time for each. I figured this would eliminate hotspot
initialisation and GC effects.

Sounds good. I followed the same approach (i.e. repeating and using the
min time value).

My results:

  - The higher level the buffering, the more effective.
  - Buffering on byte level often actually rather hurts than helps.
  - Reading in 1k chunks from the application level is already close to
optimal.

Kind regards

    robert

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