Review request for JDK-8062141: Various performance issues parsing JSON

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

I uploaded a new wevrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8062141/webrev.02/

This version builds the property maps and value containers directly in 
the JSON parser, making use of PropertyMap's history feature to reuse maps.

Answers to Marcus' questions are inline below.

Am 2015-01-31 um 16:40 schrieb Marcus Lagergren:
> Awesome numbers, Hannes. Why was the last JSON parser so slow? I guess it was just a case of clean room implement per spec to ensure correctness, right? I don’t think we’ve paid a lot of attention to the JSON code since it was first written.

I couldn't find a single issue with the old parser, so it's more like a 
death from thousand cuts. There's certainly room for improvement, which 
is important as these are the same base classes used by our main parser.
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> Does everything compile without warnings? I notice you have explicitly added a @SuppressWarnings(“unchecked”) in JSONFunctions. Why was this the case? List<?> still too weak?
You're right, that @SuppressWarnings was not needed. In any case I 
removed the code that used it in my rewrite :)

> Do your ProperyHashMap changes give us benefits in performance elsewhere too? (or slowdowns for that matter)
I did these changes while working on the JSONParser and they seemed to 
help. However, to be sure I wrote a PropertyHashMap microbenchmark and 
what I found is that while these changes make creation of 
PropertyHashMap slightly faster, they slightly slow down access of 
properties. Since the latter is probably more important in a longer 
running process I removed those changes from my new webrev.

> Do you have any micro benchmarks you used to test this to check in ?

I added one, it's in test/examples/json-parser-micro.js

Hannes

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>> On 30 Jan 2015, at 17:40, Hannes Wallnoefer<hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com>  wrote
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>> Please review JDK-8062141: Various performance issues parsing JSON:
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8062141/
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>> Thew new JSON parser is about 2-3 x faster than our old one, roughly on par with the ones in Rhino or V8.
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>> Hannes