On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 19:17:50 GMT, Shaojin Wen <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> We need a String format solution with good performance. String Template was
>> once expected, but it has been removed. j.u.Formatter is powerful, but its
>> performance is not good enough.
>>
>> This PR implements a subset of j.u.Formatter capabilities. The performance
>> is good enough that it is a fastpath for commonly used functions. When the
>> supported functions are exceeded, it will fall back to using j.u.Formatter.
>>
>> The performance of this implementation is good enough, the fastpath has low
>> detection cost, There is no noticeable performance degradation when falling
>> back to j.u.Formatter via fastpath.
>>
>> Below is a comparison of String.format and concat-based and StringBuilder:
>>
>> * benchmark java code
>>
>> public class StringFormat {
>> @Benchmark
>> public String stringIntFormat() {
>> return "%s %d".formatted(s, i);
>> }
>>
>> @Benchmark
>> public String stringIntConcat() {
>> return s + " " + i;
>> }
>>
>> @Benchmark
>> public String stringIntStringBuilder() {
>> return new StringBuilder(s).append(" ").append(i).toString();
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> * benchmark number on macbook m1 pro
>>
>> Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
>> StringFormat.stringIntConcat avgt 15 6.541 ? 0.056 ns/op
>> StringFormat.stringIntFormat avgt 15 17.399 ? 0.133 ns/op
>> StringFormat.stringIntStringBuilder avgt 15 8.004 ? 0.063 ns/op
>>
>>
>> From the above data, we can see that the implementation of fastpath reduces
>> the performance difference between String.format and StringBuilder from 10
>> times to 2~3 times.
>>
>> The implementation of fastpath supports the following four specifiers, which
>> can appear at most twice and support a width of 1 to 9.
>>
>> d
>> x
>> X
>> s
>>
>> If necessary, we can add a few more.
>>
>>
>> Below is a comparison of performance numbers running on a MacBook M1,
>> showing a significant performance improvement.
>>
>> -Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
>> (baseline)
>> -StringFormat.complexFormat avgt 15 895.954 ? 52.541 ns/op
>> -StringFormat.decimalFormat avgt 15 277.420 ? 18.254 ns/op
>> -StringFormat.stringFormat avgt 15 66.787 ? 2.715 ns/op
>> -StringFormat.stringIntFormat avgt 15 81.046 ? 1.879 ns/op
>> -StringFormat.widthStringFormat avgt 15 38.897 ? 0.114 ns/op
>> -StringFormat.widthStringIntFormat avgt 15 109.841 ? 1.028 ns/op
>>
>> +Benchmark ...
>
> Shaojin Wen has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> improve StringFormat benchmark
I have serious concerns about going forward with this optimization.
It creates duplicate and fragile code that becomes a maintenance overhead.
It reduces the performance of the non-covered cases and does nothing for the
other cases using Formatter.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19956#issuecomment-2203237835
