Hi All, I have some performance updates for the jar tool and for the Zip/Jar writing components, including some code to allow parallel writing of Jar and ZIP files (in java.util)
This work is not finished as yet but I am looking to see if anyone has any views as to the shape this should move in Currently it is a testbed for comparing different techniques, but largely based on the Jar utility The changes allow the work to be spread across multiple CPUs and optimise the some of the code and I/O paths This comparative figures do not include the effect of the nio changes that I proposed in earlier emails Command line changes 0--9 - I have added support for specifying different compression levels (the existing jar command just allows default compression or '0' for no compression, so the command allows 0-9 to be specified D This allows the files to all be written with the date of now, lather than the file date (the conversion of the date to zip format is a CPU hog, and not needed in some use-cases) Z0-9 - these are the different mechanisms to allow different parallel execution models - I would not expect this to be a production qualifier The test environment is a 4 core Intel core2 pc running windows vista 64, the test case is jaring up the content of rt.jar to a jar file. Each test is repeated 6 times and the last 5 are averaged to produce the answers The performance figures are below
