Hi all,
I propose a patch to java.util.IdentityHashMap to speed-up toArray
methods of it's keySet, values and entrySet views:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/101777488/jdk8-tl/IdentityHashMap/webrev.01/index.html
I toyed with the possibility to replace HashMap-s, that are used in
java.lang.Class and java.lang.reflect.[Field|Method|Constructor] to hold
cached annotations, with IdentityHashMap-s. They are a perfect
replacement, since keys in these maps are java.lang.Class objects.
They are more compact then HashMap-s. This is the comparison of
allocated heap bytes between HashMap and IdentityHashMap for various
sizes and corresponding capacities which takes into account the size of
the Map object, the size of allocated array and the size of Map.Entry-s
in case of HM (IHM doesn't have them) and the size of associated values
Collection view (allocated when dumping annotations to array). HM-s for
annotations are currently allocated with default initial capacity (16).
I propose to allocate IHM-s with initial capacity 8 that fits to hold 5
entries which is enough for typical annotation use cases on one hand and
still makes improvement for any case on the other:
32 bit JVM:
| HashMap | IdentityHashMap |
size|capacity bytes|capacity bytes|IHM.bytes-HM.bytes
--------+-----------------+-----------------+------------------
0| 16 144| 8 136| -8
1| 16 168| 8 136| -32
2| 16 192| 8 136| -56
3| 16 216| 8 136| -80
4| 16 240| 8 136| -104
5| 16 264| 8 136| -128
6| 16 288| 16 200| -88
7| 16 312| 16 200| -112
8| 16 336| 16 200| -136
9| 16 360| 16 200| -160
10| 16 384| 16 200| -184
11| 16 408| 16 200| -208
12| 16 432| 32 328| -104
13| 32 520| 32 328| -192
14| 32 544| 32 328| -216
15| 32 568| 32 328| -240
16| 32 592| 32 328| -264
17| 32 616| 32 328| -288
18| 32 640| 32 328| -312
19| 32 664| 32 328| -336
20| 32 688| 32 328| -360
40| 64 1296| 64 584| -712
60| 128 2032| 128 1096| -936
80| 128 2512| 128 1096| -1416
100| 256 3504| 256 2120| -1384
120| 256 3984| 256 2120| -1864
140| 256 4464| 256 2120| -2344
160| 256 4944| 256 2120| -2824
180| 256 5424| 512 4168| -1256
64 bit JVM:
| HashMap | IdentityHashMap |
size|capacity bytes|capacity bytes|IHM.bytes-HM.bytes
--------+-----------------+-----------------+------------------
0| 16 248| 8 240| -8
1| 16 296| 8 240| -56
2| 16 344| 8 240| -104
3| 16 392| 8 240| -152
4| 16 440| 8 240| -200
5| 16 488| 8 240| -248
6| 16 536| 16 368| -168
7| 16 584| 16 368| -216
8| 16 632| 16 368| -264
9| 16 680| 16 368| -312
10| 16 728| 16 368| -360
11| 16 776| 16 368| -408
12| 16 824| 32 624| -200
13| 32 1000| 32 624| -376
14| 32 1048| 32 624| -424
15| 32 1096| 32 624| -472
16| 32 1144| 32 624| -520
17| 32 1192| 32 624| -568
18| 32 1240| 32 624| -616
19| 32 1288| 32 624| -664
20| 32 1336| 32 624| -712
40| 64 2552| 64 1136| -1416
60| 128 4024| 128 2160| -1864
80| 128 4984| 128 2160| -2824
100| 256 6968| 256 4208| -2760
120| 256 7928| 256 4208| -3720
140| 256 8888| 256 4208| -4680
160| 256 9848| 256 4208| -5640
180| 256 10808| 512 8304| -2504
I hope I've got that tables right. This is the program to compute them:
https://raw.github.com/plevart/jdk8-tl/JEP-149.2/test/src/test/IHMvsHMsizes.java
IHM is also more performant when retrieving the values by keys. The only
area in which it lags behind HashMap and is important for accessing
annotations in bulk is the toArray method of the values view. In
particular for small sizes. The above patch speeds-up those methods by
using index iteration instead of Iterator.
Here are some speed-up comparisons:
https://raw.github.com/plevart/jdk8-tl/JEP-149.2/test/IHM_benchmark_results_i7-2600K.txt
They are obtained by running the following micro benchmark:
https://raw.github.com/plevart/jdk8-tl/JEP-149.2/test/src/test/IdentityHashMapTest.java
Even if IHM doesn't replace HM for holding annotations, a speed-up
improvement is an improvement.
Regards, Peter