performance surprise with Object.hashCode()

[Andy Nuss]

By the way, I reran the test, filling the 2nd array with only Integer, and got the same result.  So your 2 offered explanations do not account for the surprising performance slowness of subclassing hashCode().



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 From: Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>
To: Andy Nuss <andrew_nuss at yahoo.com> 
Cc: hotspot compiler <hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net> 
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: performance surprise with Object.hashCode()
 


You should use System.nanoTime instead of currentTimeMillis.
In your 2nd run, you're going to either get a branch mispredict when it switches from Integer to Object (shouldn't be big contributor though) or you're possibly causing JIT to do type checks on each iteration to see which hashCode to call (assuming there's an inline cache installed).
Why don't you make the array typed Object but fill it only with Integers? Why are you mixing in two types?
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