I am not sure these numbers matter. I think they are skewed because
you are probably running too short a test, and the index is in memory
(or OS cache).
Once you use a real index that needs to read/write from the disk, the
percentage change will be negligible.
This is the problem with many of these "performance changes" - they
just aren't real world enough. Even if they were, I would argue that
code simplicity/maintainability is worth more than 6 seconds on a
operation that takes 4 minutes to run...
There are many people that believe micro benchmarks are next to
worthless. A good rule of thumb is that if the optimization doesn't
result in 2x speedup, it probably shouldn't be done. In most cases
any efficiency gains are later lost in maintainability issues.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_(computer_science)
Almost always there is a better bottleneck somewhere.
On Feb 10, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Michael McCandless wrote:
Yonik Seeley wrote:
I wonder how well a single generic quickSort(Object[] arr, int low,
int high) would perform vs the type-specific ones? I guess the main
overhead would be a cast from Object to the specific class to do the
compare? Too bad Java doesn't have true generics/templates.
OK I tested this.
Starting from the patch on LUCENE-1172, which has 3 quickSort methods
(one per type), I created a single quickSort method on Object[] that
takes a Comparator, and made 3 Comparators instead.
Mac OS X 10.4 (JVM 1.5):
original patch --> 247.1
simplified patch --> 254.9 (3.2% slower)
Windows Server 2003 R64 (JVM 1.6):
original patch --> 440.6
simplified patch --> 452.7 (2.7% slower)
The times are best in 10 runs. I'm running all tests with these JVM
args:
-Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -Xbatch -server
I think this is a big enough difference in performance that it's
worth keeping 3 separate quickSorts in DocumentsWriter.
Mike
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