Oleg, I've not only done 0 benchmarking, but I've done 0 testing on this class. It's just something I put together to throw into the discussion. I make to further claims than this. In fact, I prefaced this post with "It is hard to believe that reading a byte at a time is a bottleneck".
Now, when you are saying that "most performance gains came chiefly from [...] elimination of unnecessary synchronization", do you mean only contested synchronization points or uncontested ones, too? If even uncontested synchronization is undesirable, then LineReaderInputStream.readLine() eliminates the need to repeatedly call BufferedInputStream.read(), which is synchronized. - Igor -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:01 PM To: HttpClient User Discussion Subject: Re: Performance issues in ChunkedInputStream Igor Lubashev wrote: > 1. BufferedInputStream is working fine. I've looked at the source, and > it correctly tried to read data only when its internal buffer is > exhausted. Most read calls reference only the internal buffer. When > the data does get read from the underlying stream, it tries to read it > in large chunks. (Of course, if the underlying stream returns very > little data, it is a different problem.) > > 2. It is hard to believe that reading a byte at a time is a bottleneck, > but I've just quickly written a LineReaderInputStream, which is derived > from BufferedInputStream, so all the searching for CRLF/LF happens very > quickly internally. The source is attached. > > Just call readLine() method, and you'll get Strings out of the stream. > You can interleave all regular stream operations and readLine() calls. > However, if you wish to use readLine() *after* using the stream's read() > methods, make sure that you do not inadvertently pass this stream to > anything that is buffering the stream's data (or your strings may get > consumed via buffering). > > - Igor > > > Igor, With all due respect given the implementation of BufferedInputStream#read() method in Sun's JRE (see below) I just do not see how LineReaderInputStream should be any faster public synchronized int read() throws IOException { if (pos >= count) { fill(); if (pos >= count) return -1; } return getBufIfOpen()[pos++] & 0xff; } Have you done any benchmarking comparing performance of HttpClient 3.x with and without the patch? I have invested a lot of efforts into optimizing the low level HTTP components for HttpClient 4.0 [1] and most performance gains came chiefly from three factors: elimination of unnecessary synchronization and intermediate buffer copying and reduced garbage (thus reduced GC time). Performance improvement due to the improved HTTP header parser and chunk codec were marginal at best. Oleg [1] http://jakarta.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/index.html >>>> I looked at the source for BufferedInputStream and it looks like >>>> it tries to fill the empty space in the buffer each time you read >>>> > from > >>> it (for a socket connection it will read more than one packet of >>> > data) > >>>> instead of just doing a single read from the underlying stream. >>>> >>>> >>> Ok, then the byte-by-byte reading in CIS when parsing the chunk >>> > header > >>> might well be the problem. If you want to fix that, you'll have to >>> > hack > >>> deeply into CIS. Here is what I would do if I had no other choice: >>> >>> - extend CIS by a local byte array as a buffer (needs two extra int >>> for cursor and fill size) >>> - change the chunk header parsing to read a bunch of bytes into the >>> buffer, then parsing from there >>> - change all read methods to return leftover bytes from the buffer >>> before calling a read on the underlying stream >>> >>> hope that helps, >>> Roland >>> >>> >> Tony and Roland, >> >> I suspect rather strongly it is BufferedInputStream that needs fixing, >> not ChunkedInputStream >> >> Oleg >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
