On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:19:17 GMT, Claes Redestad <redes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/java/lang/StringDecode.java line 72:
>>
>>> 70: public void setup() {
>>> 71: charset = Charset.forName(charsetName);
>>> 72: asciiString = LOREM.substring(0, 32).getBytes(charset);
>>
>> This is problematic IMO in that it's missing short strings such as "Claes".
>> Average Java strings are about 32 bytes long AFAICR, and people writing
>> (vectorized) ijntrinsics have a nasty habit of optimizing for long strings,
>> to the detriment of typical-length ones.
>> Whether we like it or not, people will optimize for benchmarks, so it's
>> important that benchmark data is realistic. The shortest here is 15 bytes,
>> as far as I can see. I'd certainly include a short string of just a few
>> bytes so that intrinsics don't cause regressions in important cases.
>
> All good points. I've added a number of such short variants to all(?)
> relevant microbenchmarks. The tests should now better cover a mix of input
> lengths and encodings.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7516
