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kinow commented on PR #568:
URL: https://github.com/apache/opennlp/pull/568#issuecomment-1858767471

   > I think, we c/should consider using a `ConcurrentHashMap`-based 
deduplicator approach to replace "intern()" calls, as investigated and 
explained by Shipilev in his blog post here:
   > 
   > https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/10-string-intern/
   > 
   > The removal of the String deduplication, as found in the code segments of 
this PR, could otherwise lead to more required RAM at runtime - as @kinow 
already expressed.
   > 
   > Wdyt? @jzonthemtn @rzo1
   > 
   > (A) Removal (PR as is now), or (B) Replacement with concurrent-capable 
custom deduplicator?
   
   (B) looks interesting, +1 for trying that out, and for @rzo1 suggestion to 
add that on top of this one.
   
   >`CHMInterner`
   
   First time I've seen an intern made in the code (intentionally like that). 
Sounds like a good idea! You do the intern without using the heap. Not sure if 
it will perform as fast as String.intern, but I think it might work! Thanks 
@mawiesne 




> Large dictionaries cause JVM OutOfMemoryError: PermGen due to String interning
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OPENNLP-421
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-421
>             Project: OpenNLP
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Name Finder
>    Affects Versions: tools-1.5.2-incubating
>         Environment: RedHat 5, JDK 1.6.0_29
>            Reporter: Jay Hacker
>            Assignee: Richard Zowalla
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: performance
>   Original Estimate: 168h
>  Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> The current implementation of StringList:
> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/opennlp/branches/opennlp-1.5.2-incubating/opennlp-tools/src/main/java/opennlp/tools/util/StringList.java?view=markup
>  
> calls intern() on every String.  Presumably this is an attempt to reduce 
> memory usage for duplicate tokens.  Interned Strings are stored in the JVM's 
> permanent generation, which has a small fixed size (seems to be about 83 MB 
> on modern 64-bit JVMs: 
> [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html]).
>   Once this fills up, the JVM crashes with an OutOfMemoryError: PermGen 
> space.  
> The size of the PermGen can be increased with the -XX:MaxPermSize= option to 
> the JVM.  However, this option is non-standard and not well known, and it 
> would be nice if OpenNLP worked out of the box without deep JVM tuning.
> This immediate problem could be fixed by simply not interning Strings.  
> Looking at the Dictionary and DictionaryNameFinder code as a whole, however, 
> there is a huge amount of room for performance improvement.  Currently, 
> DictionaryNameFinder.find works something like this:
> for every token in every tokenlist in the dictionary:
>     copy it into a "meta dictionary" of single tokens
> for every possible subsequence of tokens in the sentence:        // of which 
> there are O(N^2)
>     copy the sequence into a new array
>     if the last token is in the "meta dictionary":
>         make a StringList from the tokens
>         look it up in the dictionary
> Dictionary itself is very heavyweight: it's a Set<StringListWrapper>, which 
> wraps StringList, which wraps Array<String>.  Every entry in the dictionary 
> requires at least four allocated objects (in addition to the Strings): Array, 
> StringList, StringListWrapper, and HashMap.Entry.  Even contains and remove 
> allocate new objects!
> From this comment in DictionaryNameFinder:
>         // TODO: improve performance here
> It seems like improvements would be welcome.  :)  Removing some of the object 
> overhead would more than make up for interning strings.  Should I create a 
> new Jira ticket to propose a more efficient design?



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