Agree that any additional object creation on a hot path could be a
problem. So hot path should not contain stream API and any other
potentially problem code (e.g. iterator instead of for by index).

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:45 PM Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, maybe a total ban is overkill, but right now streams are used even on
> some hot paths like getAllAsync [1].
>
> Another issue is that Collectors.toList() and other variants don't accept
> capacity, and we end up with unnecessary reallocations of underlying arrays.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/apache/ignite-3/blob/1d7d703ff2b18234b15a9a7b03104fbb73388edf/modules/table/src/main/java/org/apache/ignite/internal/table/KVBinaryViewImpl.java#L83
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:06 PM Konstantin Orlov <kor...@gridgain.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Agree with Ivan that it’s an overkill. Code readability and
> > maintainability should have
> > the same priority as the performance (with some exceptions of course).
> >
> > BTW the result of your benchmark looks quite strange. The performance
> > penalty on
> > my laptop (Core i7 9750H, 6 cores up to 4.50 GHz) is 25%, not 8 times:
> >
> > Benchmark                         Mode  Cnt      Score     Error   Units
> > JmhIncrementBenchmark.loopSum    thrpt   10  32347.819 ± 676.548  ops/ms
> > JmhIncrementBenchmark.streamSum  thrpt   10  24459.196 ± 610.152  ops/ms
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Konstantin Orlov
> >
> >
> > > On 8 Sep 2021, at 12:23, Ivan Bessonov <bessonov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Igniters,
> > >
> > > I object, banning streams is an overkill. I would argue that most of the
> > > code
> > > is not on hot paths and that allocations in TLAB don't create much
> > pressure
> > > on GC.
> > >
> > > Streams must be used cautiously, developers should know whether they
> > > write hot methods or not. And if methods are not hot, code simplicity
> > must
> > > be
> > > the first priority. I don't want Ignite 3 code to look like Ignite 2
> > code,
> > > where
> > > people would iterate over Lists using explicit access by indexes,
> > because it
> > > saves them a single Iterator allocation. That's absurd.
> > >
> > > ср, 8 сент. 2021 г. в 11:43, Pavel Tupitsyn <ptupit...@apache.org>:
> > >
> > >> Igniters,
> > >>
> > >> Java streams are known to be slower and cause more GC pressure than an
> > >> equivalent loop.
> > >> Below is a simple filter/map/reduce scenario (code [1]):
> > >>
> > >> * Benchmark                                                     Mode
> > Cnt
> > >>    Score     Error   Units
> > >>
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.loopSum                                 thrpt
> >   3
> > >> 7987.016 ± 293.013  ops/ms
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.loopSum:·gc.alloc.rate                  thrpt
> >   3
> > >>   ≈ 10⁻⁴            MB/sec
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.loopSum:·gc.count                       thrpt
> >   3
> > >>      ≈ 0            counts
> > >>
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.streamSum                               thrpt
> >   3
> > >> 1060.244 ±  36.485  ops/ms
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.streamSum:·gc.alloc.rate                thrpt
> >   3
> > >>  315.819 ±  10.844  MB/sec
> > >> * StreamVsLoopBenchmark.streamSum:·gc.count                     thrpt
> >   3
> > >>   55.000            counts
> > >>
> > >> Loop is several times faster and does not allocate at all.
> > >>
> > >> 1. Performance is one of the most important features of our product.
> > >> 2. Most of our APIs will be on the hot path.
> > >>
> > >> One can argue about performance differences in real-world scenarios,
> > >> but increasing GC pressure just to make the code a little bit nicer is
> > >> unacceptable.
> > >>
> > >> I propose to ban streams usage in the codebase (except for the tests).
> > >>
> > >> Thoughts, objections?
> > >>
> > >> [1] https://gist.github.com/ptupitsyn/5934bbbf8f92ac4937e534af9386da97
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sincerely yours,
> > > Ivan Bessonov
> >
> >

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