JNI-performance - Is it really that fast?

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi again,

Thanks a lot for the valueable feedback :)

> Biased locking is enabled 4 seconds after startup.
Thanks a lot Christian and greetings from Austria!
With your suggested flag the synchronization-overhead with
BiasedLocking shrinks to about 10-20% on my Dual-Core machine down
from a few hundred percent.
Do you know wether ReentrantLock could also be optimized to use
BiasedLocking? In my use-case most likely one thread will
aquire/release the lock again and again, maybe from time to time
another thread will aquire it, but rather seldom.

> Our per primitive cost is still mostly
>  consists of jni overhead for small primitives (think
>  fillRect(1x1)).
For my fillRect(1x1) test the locking of AWT's ReentrantLock was far
more expensive than the JNI overhead even with almost no contention.
That was for a VolatileImage, on a Dual-Core machine, on a single-core
machine I tested on the hit was much smaller.

>  In the meantime the people who believe jni performance is very good
>  please continue to speak up as I'm sure the vm engineers who have
> worked
>  to improve this path over the years will appreciate the feedback. :-)
Its really impressive, congratulations and thanks to the vm engineers
who made that possible  :) ;)

Thanks a lot, lg Clemens