On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:53:26 GMT, kabutz <d...@openjdk.java.net> wrote:
>> This is a draft proposal for how we could improve stream performance for the >> case where the streams are empty. Empty collections are common-place. If we >> iterate over them with an Iterator, we would have to create one small >> Iterator object (which could often be eliminated) and if it is empty we are >> done. However, with Streams we first have to build up the entire pipeline, >> until we realize that there is no work to do. With this example, we change >> Collection#stream() to first check if the collection is empty, and if it is, >> we simply return an EmptyStream. We also have EmptyIntStream, >> EmptyLongStream and EmptyDoubleStream. We have taken great care for these to >> have the same characteristics and behaviour as the streams returned by >> Stream.empty(), IntStream.empty(), etc. >> >> Some of the JDK tests fail with this, due to ClassCastExceptions (our >> EmptyStream is not an AbstractPipeline) and AssertionError, since we can >> call some methods repeatedly on the stream without it failing. On the plus >> side, creating a complex stream on an empty stream gives us upwards of 50x >> increase in performance due to a much smaller object allocation rate. This >> PR includes the code for the change, unit tests and also a JMH benchmark to >> demonstrate the improvement. > > kabutz has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit > since the last revision: > > Refactored empty stream implementations to reduce duplicate code and > improved unordered() > Added StreamSupport.empty for primitive spliterators and use that in > Arrays.stream() satisfy the bot with a comment - we are on day 20 now :) @kabutz i hope that was ok? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6275
