On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:46:48 GMT, Fernando Guallini <fguall...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> The manual test Cipher/DES/PerformanceTest.java fails with 
>> ArithmeticException due to potential division by zero. The issue arises when 
>> calculating the elapsed time using end - start, which could result in zero 
>> milliseconds if start and end are identical due to the high speed of 
>> execution. This leads to a division error in the following code snippet:
>> 
>> 
>> start = System.currentTimeMillis();
>> end = System.currentTimeMillis();
>> int speed = (int)((data.length * count)/(end - start));
>> 
>> This issue is easily reproducible on platforms where 
>> System.currentTimeMillis() has low granularity, such as many versions of 
>> Windows, end and start can be equal when obtaining 
>> System.currentTimeMillis() if the test runs very quickly.
>> 
>> The fix is to use System.nanoTime() instead, which is designed to measure 
>> elapsed time with very high precision. This value is then converted to 
>> microseconds so the tests can properly calculate the throughput (bytes 
>> processed per microsecond) for the report. Example output:
>> 
>> 
>> Algorithm                      DataSize Rounds Bytes/microsec
>> DES/ECB/NoPadding               1024    100       66
>> DES/ECB/NoPadding               1024    1000      50
>> DES/ECB/NoPadding               8192    100       70
>> DES/ECB/NoPadding               8192    1000      70
>> Average:                                            64
>
> Fernando Guallini has updated the pull request with a new target base due to 
> a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains eight additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - converted to automated test
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8336240
>  - adding back the validation to avoid dividing by zero
>  - byter per microsec
>  - use microseconds as time unit
>  - remove unused imports
>  - tiny refactor
>  - avoid dividing by zero

Marked as reviewed by wetmore (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20135#pullrequestreview-2200590277

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