RFR: 8282429: StringBuilder/StringBuffer.toString() skip compressing for UTF16 strings

Daniel Jeliński djelinski at openjdk.java.net
Thu Mar 3 08:14:05 UTC 2022


On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 02:36:58 GMT, Xin Liu <xliu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If AbstractStringBuilder only grow, the inflated value which has been encoded in UTF16 can't be compressed. 
> toString() can skip compression in this case. This can save an ArrayAllocation in StringUTF16::compress().
> 
> java.io.BufferedRead::readLine() is a case that StringBuilder grows only. 
> 
> In microbench, we expect to see that allocation/op reduces 20%.  The initial capacity of StringBuilder is S in bytes. When it encounters the 1st character that can't be encoded in LATIN1, it inflates and allocate a new array of 2*S. `toString()` will try to compress that value so it need to allocate S bytes. The last step allocates 2*S bytes because it has to copy the string.  so it requires to allocate 5 * S bytes in total.  By skipping the failed compression, it only allocates 4 * S bytes.  that's 20%. In real execution, we observe 16% allocation reduction, tracked by JMH GC profiler `gc.alloc.rate.norm `.  I think it's because HotSpot can't track all allocations. 
> 
> Not only allocation drops, the runtime performance(ns/op) also increases from 3.34% to 18.91%. 
> 
> Before: 
> 
> $$make test TEST="micro:org.openjdk.bench.java.lang.StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars" MICRO="OPTIONS=-prof gc -gc true -o before.log -jvm $HOME/Devel/jdk_baseline/bin/java" 
> 
> Benchmark                                                               (MIXED_SIZE)  Mode  Cnt     Score     Error   Units
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                            128  avgt   15   649.846 ±  76.291   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                             128  avgt   15   872.855 ± 128.259  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                        128  avgt   15   880.121 ±   0.050    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                    128  avgt   15   707.730 ± 194.421  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm               128  avgt   15   706.602 ±  94.504    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space                128  avgt   15     0.001 ±   0.002  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm           128  avgt   15     0.001 ±   0.001    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                  128  avgt   15   113.000            counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                   128  avgt   15    85.000                ms
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                            256  avgt   15  1316.652 ± 112.771   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                             256  avgt   15   800.864 ±  76.869  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                        256  avgt   15  1648.288 ±   0.162    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                    256  avgt   15   599.736 ± 174.001  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm               256  avgt   15  1229.669 ± 318.518    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space                256  avgt   15     0.001 ±   0.001  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm           256  avgt   15     0.001 ±   0.002    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                  256  avgt   15   133.000            counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                   256  avgt   15    92.000                ms
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                           1024  avgt   15  5204.303 ± 418.115   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                            1024  avgt   15   768.730 ±  72.945  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                       1024  avgt   15  6256.844 ±   0.358    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                   1024  avgt   15   655.852 ± 121.602  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm              1024  avgt   15  5315.265 ± 578.878    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space               1024  avgt   15     0.002 ±   0.002  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm          1024  avgt   15     0.014 ±   0.011    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                 1024  avgt   15    96.000            counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                  1024  avgt   15    86.000                ms
> 
> 
> After
> 
> $make test TEST="micro:org.openjdk.bench.java.lang.StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars" MICRO="OPTIONS=-prof gc -gc true -o after.log" 
> 
> Benchmark                                                               (MIXED_SIZE)  Mode  Cnt     Score      Error   Units
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                            128  avgt   15   627.522 ±   54.804   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                             128  avgt   15   751.353 ±   83.478  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                        128  avgt   15   736.120 ±    0.062    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                    128  avgt   15   589.102 ±  164.083  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm               128  avgt   15   575.425 ±  127.021    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space                128  avgt   15    ≈ 10⁻³             MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm           128  avgt   15    ≈ 10⁻³               B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                  128  avgt   15   116.000             counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                   128  avgt   15    86.000                 ms
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                            256  avgt   15  1185.884 ±  137.364   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                             256  avgt   15   746.179 ±   92.534  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                        256  avgt   15  1376.244 ±    0.125    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                    256  avgt   15   579.137 ±  208.636  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm               256  avgt   15  1055.150 ±  307.010    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space                256  avgt   15     0.002 ±    0.002  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm           256  avgt   15     0.003 ±    0.003    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                  256  avgt   15   126.000             counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                   256  avgt   15    97.000                 ms
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars                                           1024  avgt   15  4220.415 ±  440.169   ns/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate                            1024  avgt   15   791.945 ±   75.231  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.alloc.rate.norm                       1024  avgt   15  5217.435 ±    0.543    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space                   1024  avgt   15   657.270 ±  235.803  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Eden_Space.norm              1024  avgt   15  4232.470 ± 1267.388    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space               1024  avgt   15     0.005 ±    0.002  MB/sec
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.churn.G1_Survivor_Space.norm          1024  avgt   15     0.033 ±    0.014    B/op
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.count                                 1024  avgt   15   202.000             counts
> StringBuilders.toStringWithMixedChars:·gc.time                                  1024  avgt   15   121.000                 ms

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StringBuffer.java line 715:

> 713:     public synchronized String toString() {
> 714:         if (toStringCache == null) {
> 715:             return toStringCache = new String(this);

When you modify a method labeled `IntrinsicCandidate`, you should probably modify the intrinsic as well

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7671


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