RFR: JDK-8260273: DataOutputStream writeChars optimization

[Roger Riggs]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:57:36 GMT, Hamlin Li <mli at openjdk.org> wrote:

> this is minor optimization following JDK-8254078.
> based on my tests with jmh, it has better performance when apply following patch:
> 
> diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/DataOutputStream.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
> index 9a9a687403c..4ea497fc7c0 100644
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
> @@ -300,8 +300,9 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput {
>          int len = s.length();
>          for (int i = 0 ; i < len ; i++) {
>              int v = s.charAt(i);
> - out.write((v >>> 8) & 0xFF);
> - out.write((v >>> 0) & 0xFF);
> + writeBuffer[0] = (byte)(v >>> 8);
> + writeBuffer[1] = (byte)(v >>> 0);
> + out.write(writeBuffer, 0, 2);
>          }
>          incCount(len * 2);
>      }
> 
> Basically, it has better performance when apply above patch:
> 
> // without writeChars optimization patch, (-XX:-UseBiasedLocking)
> Benchmark (basicType) (size) Mode Cnt Score Error Units
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverBufferedFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 115.208 ± 0.327 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray STRING 4096 avgt 6 276.795 ± 0.449 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverRawFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 12356.969 ± 22.427 us/op
> 
> // with writeChars optimization patch, (-XX:-UseBiasedLocking)
> Benchmark (basicType) (size) Mode Cnt Score Error Units
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverBufferedFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 133.706 ± 0.274 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray STRING 4096 avgt 6 130.979 ± 0.155 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverRawFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 6814.272 ± 52.770 us/op
> 
> 
> // without writeChars optimization patch, (-XX:+UseBiasedLocking)
> Benchmark (basicType) (size) Mode Cnt Score Error Units
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverBufferedFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 130.367 ± 8.759 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray STRING 4096 avgt 6 37.559 ± 0.059 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverRawFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 12385.030 ± 376.560 us/op
> 
> // with writeChars optimization patch, (-XX:+UseBiasedLocking)
> Benchmark (basicType) (size) Mode Cnt Score Error Units
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverBufferedFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 45.494 ± 7.018 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverByteArray STRING 4096 avgt 6 33.015 ± 0.349 us/op
> DataOutputStreamTest.dataOutputStreamOverRawFileStream STRING 4096 avgt 6 6845.549 ± 38.712 us/op

Thanks, this should have been included in the 8254078.

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Marked as reviewed by rriggs (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2190