JDK 9 RFR of 6375303: Review use of caching in BigDecimal

[Peter Levart]

On 03/11/2014 06:10 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Sergey,
>
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Sergey Kuksenko wrote:
>
>> Could you share your benchmarks?
> Of course. Please see:
>
> benchmark source:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/6375303/Bench6375303.java
> benchmark results:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/6375303/6375303-bench.html
>
> Let us know should you find anything amiss.

Do you have access to an ARM system (like Raspberry Pi ?) On Intel, 
volatile read is practically free - especially in micro benchmarks, when 
compared to normal read. The normal read can't be hoisted out of loops 
(the microbenchmark harness tries hard to prevent that)...

I can try this on my Raspberry Pi when I get home. ;-)

It would also be helpful if the JIT-ed assembly for the toString method 
could be dumped in various scenarios.

Regards, Peter

>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian