RFR: 8362893: Improve performance for MemorySegment::getString
simon
duke at openjdk.org
Mon Jul 28 01:17:54 UTC 2025
On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:36:20 GMT, Philippe Marschall <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Use `JavaLangAccess::uncheckedNewStringNoRepl` in `MemorySegment::getString` to avoid byte[] allocation in the String constructor.
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> Fall back to the old code in the case of malformed input to get replacement characters as per Javadoc API specification. The existing tests in `TestStringEncoding` seem sufficient to me.
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> I ran the tier1 test suite and it passes.
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> For performance analysis I ran.
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> make test TEST="micro:org.openjdk.bench.java.lang.foreign.ToJavaStringTest" MICRO="OPTIONS=-prof gc"
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> on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE.
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> These are the formatted results, the current master is the line on top, this feature branch is the line below. We can see an improvement in throughput driven by a reduction in allocation.
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> Benchmark (size) Mode Cnt Score Error Units
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 5 avgt 30 18.996 ± 0.044 ns/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 5 avgt 30 13.851 ± 0.028 ns/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 20 avgt 30 23.570 ± 0.050 ns/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 20 avgt 30 18.401 ± 0.069 ns/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 100 avgt 30 32.094 ± 0.207 ns/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 100 avgt 30 24.427 ± 0.112 ns/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 200 avgt 30 43.029 ± 0.185 ns/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 200 avgt 30 31.914 ± 0.064 ns/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 451 avgt 30 81.145 ± 0.403 ns/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString 451 avgt 30 58.975 ± 0.233 ns/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 5 avgt 30 72.000 ± 0.001 B/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 5 avgt 30 48.000 ± 0.001 B/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 20 avgt 30 104.000 ± 0.001 B/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 20 avgt 30 64.000 ± 0.001 B/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 100 avgt 30 264.000 ± 0.001 B/op
> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 100 avgt 30 144.000 ± 0.001 B/op
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> ToJavaStringTest.panama_readString:gc.alloc.rate.norm 200 avgt ...
src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/foreign/StringSupport.java line 33:
> 31: import jdk.internal.util.Architecture;
> 32: import jdk.internal.util.ArraysSupport;
> 33: import jdk.internal.vm.annotation.ForceInline;
Nitpick: update copyright year 😄
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26493#discussion_r2234248805
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