On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasi...@oracle.com>wrote:
> Thank you, Ulf! > > > maybe the old code wins for looong arrays, so there could be a threshold >> to decide between old and new code: >> > > I've modified the benchmark code to test arrays with 90'000 to 100'000 > elements. (Previously was testing 1 to 100 elements.) > The performance gain turns out to be even more significant. > On my machine tests show that with that many elements the new code runs > 40% faster. > > Honestly, I didn't expect that. I thought my code might be a bit slower > and hoped that not much slower. > Yeah, that's a bit surprising. Perhaps because you're avoiding the branch of testing object for null on each iteration?
