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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1428:
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But schema caches the hashcode. Each schema generally only computes its
hashcode once. Computing the hashcode should be done no more frequently than
each schema is created and should be considerably faster than creation. So I'm
still not clear what the use case is where this makes a difference. (I also
don't like moving the caching into the method that's meant to compute, not
cache, and am not convinced that change is correct in all cases.)
> Schema.computeHash() to add if check to avoid unnecessary hashcode computation
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-1428
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1428
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Reporter: Tie Liu
> Attachments: AVRO-1428.patch, AVRO-1428.patch-V2, TestAvro.java
>
>
> In current Schma.java we have following implementation:
> public final int hashCode() {
> if (hashCode == NO_HASHCODE)
> hashCode = computeHash();
> return hashCode;
> }
> int computeHash() { return getType().hashCode() + props.hashCode(); }
> While hashCode is doing the checking of "if (hashCode == NO_HASHCODE)", the
> computeHash method is not. But the computeHash method is being called from
> Schema$Field.hashCode and the subclasses hashCode implementation like
> following:
> public int hashCode() { return name.hashCode() + schema.computeHash(); }
> //this is from Schema$Field class
> This is causing the the calculation of hashCode getting called
> unnecessarily extensively. The proposed changed is to add the "if" check
> inside the computeHash method instead:
> int computeHash()
> {
> if (hashCode == NO_HASHCODE)
> {
> hashCode = getType().hashCode() + props.hashCode();
> }
> return hashCode;
> }
> We did a simple test to compare the performance difference, below is a
> summary of the heap snapshot of comparing the difference:
> As a test I wrote a small program that creates a HashMap<Schema.Field,
> Integer>() and enters a loop simply identifying whether various Schema.Field
> instances are keys in the map. Obviously this is a pathological test case,
> but when running with the current implementation of Schema.Field it has (in
> about 30 seconds) used up nearly 8 GBytes of heap in instantiating
> intermediate objects associated with calling Schema.computeHash():
> Heap
> PSYoungGen total 17432576K, used 8666481K [0x0000000340000000,
> 0x0000000800000000, 0x0000000800000000)
> eden space 14942208K, 58% used
> [0x0000000340000000,0x0000000550f5c650,0x00000006d0000000)
> from space 2490368K, 0% used
> [0x0000000768000000,0x0000000768000000,0x0000000800000000)
> to space 2490368K, 0% used
> [0x00000006d0000000,0x00000006d0000000,0x0000000768000000)
> ParOldGen total 1048576K, used 0K [0x0000000300000000,
> 0x0000000340000000, 0x0000000340000000)
> object space 1048576K, 0% used
> [0x0000000300000000,0x0000000300000000,0x0000000340000000)
> PSPermGen total 21504K, used 5782K [0x00000002fae00000,
> 0x00000002fc300000, 0x0000000300000000)
> object space 21504K, 26% used
> [0x00000002fae00000,0x00000002fb3a5818,0x00000002fc300000)
> When running with the modified implementation (and no other change) all the
> object allocation vanishes:
> Heap
> PSYoungGen total 17432576K, used 896532K [0x0000000340000000,
> 0x0000000800000000, 0x0000000800000000)
> eden space 14942208K, 6% used
> [0x0000000340000000,0x0000000376b852d0,0x00000006d0000000)
> from space 2490368K, 0% used
> [0x0000000768000000,0x0000000768000000,0x0000000800000000)
> to space 2490368K, 0% used
> [0x00000006d0000000,0x00000006d0000000,0x0000000768000000)
> ParOldGen total 1048576K, used 0K [0x0000000300000000,
> 0x0000000340000000, 0x0000000340000000)
> object space 1048576K, 0% used
> [0x0000000300000000,0x0000000300000000,0x0000000340000000)
> PSPermGen total 21504K, used 5768K [0x00000002fae00000,
> 0x00000002fc300000, 0x0000000300000000)
> object space 21504K, 26% used
> [0x00000002fae00000,0x00000002fb3a2240,0x00000002fc300000)
> As a side-effect the test runs x3 faster with the modified hashCode()
> implementation.
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