Hi Alex,
- the ^void is necessary to get the method signature right for it to
compile at all
- *the nil workaround "works" in that decompilation shows the method
body with the addition only, no cast - thank you*
- ...but makes a smaller difference to my overall execution time:-)
- lesson learned (remembered): use asynchronous profiling to avoid
safepoint bias
- when I do that without the workaround it's clear that the addition is
50% of the observable work in that method, the Numbers.num Long.valueOf()
calls the other 50% - so eliminating the cast doesn't make everything free
Thanks,
Pete Windle
On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 12:40:07 AM UTC+1 Alex Miller wrote:
> I don't think that void type hint is going to do anything there. The
> deftype impl of apply here will (has to by Java requirements) return void
> here. There is a gap here I think where the return gets needlessly boxed.
> You might try just putting a nil expr after the set! as a workaround.
> In any case, we should definitely get a ticket filed and track this down.
>
>
> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 7:11:31 AM UTC-5 pete windle wrote:
>
>> Hey, I'm trying to work on some performance sensitive code using Clojure
>> together with the Carrotsearch HPPC library. I've come up against a weird
>> behaviour of set! in conjunction with primitive maths.
>>
>> This example is a toy problem not a production problem, but there are
>> things I might not be harder to do at work w/Clojure.
>>
>> I have a com.carrotsearch.hppc.LongLongHashMap and I wish to sum the
>> contents of the map. They provide a com.carrotsearch.hppc.LongLongProcedure
>> where an apply method is called for each k, v.
>>
>> Thence:
>> (defprotocol ValueRetriever
>> (get-value [this ^LongLongHashMap memory]))
>>
>> (deftype ValueAdder [^{:unsynchronized-mutable true} ^long total]
>> LongLongProcedure
>> (^void apply [this ^long k ^long v]
>> (set! total (unchecked-add total v)))
>> ValueRetriever
>> (get-value [this memory] (set! total 0) (.forEach memory this) total))
>>
>> To a first approximation all of the time spent summing the map is in the
>> apply method as expected, however when I profile it with YourKit every
>> sample taken is actually in clojure.lang.Numbers.num. Using the extremely
>> handy *clj-java-decompiler *library I can try to see what's happening,
>> and it looks like we're attempting to box the return value from set!
>>
>> public void apply(final long k, final long n) {
>> Numbers.num(this.total += n);
>> }
>>
>>
>> Is there some technique I can use to stop the return value from set!
>> being boxed (before the box is discarded to the void)?
>>
>> I do have real use cases where a rather tight aggregation loop will be
>> called for many millions of values and I'd prefer not to incur this cost.
>>
>> Workaround is obviously to write the aggregators in Java but that's
>> strongly not preferred, at the point I'm mixing modes I might as well write
>> the whole core in Java.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete Windle
>>
>>
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