Hello!

(disclaimer: I'm not an official reviewer)

> ((AbstractList) lst).modCount;

Raw-type casts should be replaced with AbstractList<?> to avoid
warning.

> public RandomAccessSpliterator<E> trySplit()

Covariant return type seems to be unnecessary here as this spliterator
is not public and covariant type is not used anywhere. On the other
hand it generates a bridge method increasing class file size by ~100
bytes. I would prefer "public Spliterator<E> trySplit()" here.

> RandomAccessSpliterator(List<E> list) {
>     this(list, 0, -1, list instanceof AbstractList ? ((AbstractList) 
> list).modCount : 0);
>     assert list instanceof RandomAccess;
> }

I don't see why modCount is requested here from original list. Anyways
it will be reinitialized in getFence(). It seems that using
"this(list, 0, -1, 0)" would be just as fine.

> for (; i < hi; ++i) {
>         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
>         E e = lst.get(i);
>         action.accept(e);
>         checkForComodification(mc);
> }
> return;

For better performance ArrayList.spliterator() does not check for
comodification on every iteration. I guess, here it's also possible to
do this. Note that as lst.get() and especially action.accept() will
unlikely to be inlined by JIT as such call sites are usually
polymorphic in real applications. As a consequence,
checkForComodification cannot be optimized to eliminate field load and
instanceof check, so these operations will be performed on every
iteration. forEachRemaining() implementation avoids this by storing
field into local variable lst, but checkForComodification uses field,
not local.

Also note that AbstractList.subList().spliterator() should probably
also be redefined (I guess, Paul already mentioned this). It should be
linked to the original List, not to the subList to check
comodification against the original list and also to reduce the
indirection in .get() calls.

I wonder if it's really necessary to go down to the
List.spliterator(). Probably it would be ok to leave
List.spliterator() as is, but redefine AbstractList.spliterator() only
(so only implementations derived from AbstractList will benefit, but
most of real-life lists extend AbstractList). This would eliminate
those instanceof checks.

With best regards,
Tagir Valeev.


IH> Hi Paul,

IH> Thank you very much for your feedback, and apologize for the delay in 
response..

IH> I have incorporated your comments in the attached patch. Please
IH> kindly take a look and let me know if you have further feedback.

IH> - Modified @implSpec to add a description in case the list implements 
RandomAccess.
IH> - Added modification checking in RandomAccessSpliterator, only
IH> when the list implements AbstractList. 

IH> Sorry for the confusion about SubList. It was all about the
IH> concurrent modification checking, so adding the change above
IH> pretty much addressed my issue earlier. 

IH> Thanks,
IH> Hiroshi

IH> -----Original Message-----
IH> From: Paul Sandoz [mailto:paul.san...@oracle.com] 
IH> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:46 PM
IH> To: Ito, Hiroshi [Tech]
IH> Cc: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net; Chan, Sunny [Tech]; Raab, Donald [Tech]
IH> Subject: Re: RFR: Implement RandomAccess spliterator

IH> Hi Hiroshi,

IH> This is a good example of what seems like a small feature and yet
IH> there are some unexpected complexities :-)


IH> We will need to refine the implementation specification of
IH> List.spliterator, which currently states:

IH> * @implSpec
IH> * The default implementation creates a
IH> * <em><a href="Spliterator.html#binding">late-binding</a></em> spliterator
IH> * from the list's {@code Iterator}.  The spliterator inherits the
IH> * <em>fail-fast</em> properties of the list's iterator.


IH> Since the existing implementation is derived from the iterator:

IH>   @Override
IH>   default Spliterator<E> spliterator() {
IH>       return Spliterators.spliterator(this, Spliterator.ORDERED);
IH>   }

IH> concurrent modification checking will occur. The
IH> RandomAccessSpliterator should also support modification checking,
IH> which i think requires it be an inner class to check co-mod state.


IH> I am struggling to understand the points you make about the
IH> spliterator of a sub-list of a Vector being required to be an
IH> iterator-based implementation. Since AbstractList.SubList can
IH> access a Vector's elements through List.get/set why cannot 
RandomAccessSpliterator?

IH> If we want to support random access spliterators on sub-lists i
IH> think we would anyway need to override the spliterator method to
IH> check for concurrent modification (as is the case of the iterator method).

IH> Paul.

>> On 11 May 2016, at 11:25, Ito, Hiroshi <hiroshi....@gs.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please kindly review the attached patch for RandomAccessSpliterator 
>> implementation.
>> 
>> Currently default implementation of spliterator is an IteratorSpliterator 
>> which is not optimal for RandomAccess data structures (besides ArrayList and 
>> Vector). This patch is to provide a default RandomAccessSpliterator 
>> implementation for RandomAccess data structure.
>> 
>> The figures below demonstrate the performance difference before and after 
>> the change. Note the significant performance improvement in test 
>> SelectTest.parallel_lazy_streams_gsc (parallel streams performance test for 
>> non-JDK Lists that implement RandomAccess but don't yet implement their own 
>> spliterators).
>> 
>> Benchmark code: 
>> https://github.com/goldmansachs/gs-collections/blob/master/jmh-tests/src/main/java/com/gs/collections/impl/jmh/SelectTest.java
>> 
>> With IteratorSpliterator as default:
>> 
>> Benchmark                              Mode  Cnt    Score    Error  Units
>> SelectTest.parallel_lazy_jdk          thrpt   20  172.671 ± 14.231  ops/s
>> SelectTest.parallel_lazy_streams_gsc  thrpt   20   20.662 ±  0.493  ops/s
>> SelectTest.serial_lazy_jdk            thrpt   20   89.384 ±  4.431  ops/s
>> SelectTest.serial_lazy_streams_gsc    thrpt   20   80.831 ±  7.875  ops/s
>> 
>> With RandomAccessSpliterator as default:
>> 
>> Benchmark                              Mode  Cnt    Score    Error  Units
>> SelectTest.parallel_lazy_jdk          thrpt   20  174.190 ± 16.870  ops/s
>> SelectTest.parallel_lazy_streams_gsc  thrpt   20  180.740 ±  9.594  ops/s
>> SelectTest.serial_lazy_jdk            thrpt   20   85.719 ±  2.414  ops/s
>> SelectTest.serial_lazy_streams_gsc    thrpt   20   78.760 ±  1.029  ops/s
>> 
>> Majority of the patch is contributed by Paul Sandoz and he should be 
>> credited in the Contributed-by field.
>> 
>> Along with this patch submission, we have a question for SubList spliterator 
>> implementation that we retained old behavior for now (i.e. return 
>> IteratorSpliterator, refer to RandomAccessSubList#spliterator()). We have 
>> found that Vector's subList is wrapped by RandomAccessSubList, that is 
>> RandomAccess but not a Vector anymore, and it expects to use 
>> IteratorSpliterator. We were not sure what's the best approach to 
>> distinguish Vector from other RandomAccess data structure within 
>> RandomAccessSublist, so we kept it return IteratorSpliterator for now.
>> 
>> One approach could be to introduce VectorSubList that returns 
>> IteratorSpliterator (or an implementation similar to VectorSpliterator?). 
>> Then we could revert the spliterator() override in RandomAccessSublist.
>> 
>> What would be your suggestion to handle this?
>> 
>> Depending on your suggestion, we might fix the subList spliterator in this 
>> patch, or submit a separate patch if the amount of the change is significant.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Hiroshi
>> <RandomAccessSpliterator.patch.txt>

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