HashMap collision speed (regression 7->8)

Peter Levart peter.levart at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 15:09:02 UTC 2015


Hi,

I wasn't comfortable with Bernd's HMH benchmark results jitter, so I 
changed the mode of operation to be SingleShotTime (since a particular 
invocation is from 0.6 to 3sec anyway). GC is triggered before each 
invocation (-gc true). I also added -XX:-TieredCompilation VM option and 
run 6 forks of 10 iterations of each test. By Doug's suggestion I also 
added a variant of unchanged HashMap where TREEIFY_THRESHOLD = 1 << 20, 
UNTREEIFY_THRESHOLD = TREEIFY_THRESHOLD - 2, MIN_TREEIFY_CAPACITY = 
TREEIFY_THRESHOLD * 4 as a reference to compare with. Here are the results:

Original JDK9 HashMap:

Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
Samples        Score  Score error    Units
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16     ss 60     
3011.738       78.249       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16     ss 60     
2984.280       48.315       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16     ss 60      
682.060       52.341       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16     ss 60      
685.705       55.183       ms

Original JDK9 HashMap with TREEIFY_THRESHOLD = 1 << 20:

Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
Samples        Score  Score error    Units
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16     ss 60     
2780.771      236.647       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16     ss 60     
2541.740      233.429       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16     ss 60      
757.364       67.869       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16     ss 60      
671.617       54.943       ms

Caching of comparableClassFor (in ClassRepository - good for 
heterogeneous keys too):

Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
Samples        Score  Score error    Units
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16     ss 60     
3014.888       71.778       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16     ss 60     
2279.757       54.159       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16     ss 60      
760.743       70.674       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16     ss 60      
725.188       67.853       ms

Caching of comparableClassFor (internally - good for homogeneous keys only):

Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
Samples        Score  Score error    Units
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16     ss 60     
3026.707       84.571       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16     ss 60     
2137.296       66.140       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16     ss 60      
635.964        8.213       ms
j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16     ss 60      
685.129       46.783       ms



Regards, Peter

On 01/11/2015 12:55 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
>
> On 01/11/2015 02:27 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> You are adding the ability to add "app-specific storage" to Class 
>> objects ("Class-local variables"?), which is pretty unusual.
>
> Well, that was my intention, since the logic about what should be 
> cached is very specific to the usecase and might change in the future. 
> Anyway, this is only internal API. Users have a public alternative in 
> ClassValue. That's one reason. The other is space overhead introduced 
> when caching with ClassValue and inability to initialize ClassValue so 
> very early in the boot-up sequence.
>
>>
>> I was thinking instead of a very dumb 1-element cache, remembering 
>> Class and comparableClassFor, which will work for typical homogeneous 
>> HashMaps.
>
> This seems like a good idea. We would actually need only one field of 
> type Class<?> and a boolean flag.
>
> Unfortunately, comparableClassFor is a static method used also from 
> various other contexts that don't have access to HashMap instance, for 
> example from TreeNode. We would have to extend the internal API with 
> an additional HashMap argument to pass the HM instance around. Not to 
> mention that this would be tricky because retaining the last used 
> comparable Class object in the HM instance could prevent GC from 
> releasing a ClassLoader in an app server environment for example. A 
> WeakReference<Class<?>> would have to be used and new WeakReference 
> object created each time cached value changes. Unless we cache only 
> the 1st comparableClassFor result and never change it, which has the 
> same cache-hit ratio for homogeneous keys.
>
> Right, here's what this looks like:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/HM.comparableClassFor/HomogeneousKeysCache/webrev.01/
>
> I modified Bernd's JMH benchmark a little to use ThreadLocalRandom 
> insted of Random, so results express more what is going on with 
> HashMap and less with Random synchronization:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/HM.comparableClassFor/HashMapCollision.java
>
> Results:
>
> Original JDK9 HashMap:
>
> Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
> Samples        Score  Score error    Units
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16 avgt         
> 6     3101.247      435.866    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16 avgt         
> 6     2410.202      478.247    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16 avgt         
> 6      615.100        7.063    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16 avgt         
> 6      614.229      159.558    ms/op
>
> Caching of comparableClassFor (in ClassRepository - good for 
> heterogeneous keys too):
>
> Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
> Samples        Score  Score error    Units
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16 avgt         
> 6     3305.967      652.791    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16 avgt         
> 6     2030.965      241.910    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16 avgt         
> 6      611.202        6.440    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16 avgt         
> 6      582.890        4.896    ms/op
>
> Caching of comparableClassFor (internally - good for homogeneous keys 
> only):
>
> Benchmark                               (initialSize)   Mode 
> Samples        Score  Score error    Units
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp                 16 avgt         
> 6     3265.673      660.030    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp               16 avgt         
> 6     1875.204      224.682    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp                16 avgt         
> 6      598.949       25.484    ms/op
> j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp              16 avgt         
> 6      585.278        8.103    ms/op
>
>
> Regards, Peter
>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:peter.levart at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 01/10/2015 01:20 AM, Doug Lea wrote:
>>>     On 01/09/2015 06:29 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>     Given the prevalence of sub-optimal hashcodes, my own intuition
>>>>     is also that
>>>>     raising the treeification threshold from 8 will be a win.
>>>
>>>     That's what I thought at first. But 8 is a better choice for String
>>>     and other Comparable keys, which account for the majority of
>>>     HashMaps
>>>     out there. (For non-comparables, infinity is the best threshold.)
>>>     How much slower should we make the most common cases to make the
>>>     others
>>>     faster? The only way to decide empirically is to take a large
>>>     corpus of programs and vary thresholds. Short of that, speeding up
>>>     comparableClassFor is still the best bet for reducing impact on
>>>     non-comparables.
>>
>>     Hi Doug,
>>
>>     comparableClassFor() for non-comparables that don't implement
>>     Comparable is already as fast as it can be (the 1st check is
>>     instanceof Comparable). For other comparables (and
>>     non-comparables) that implement Comparable (except for String
>>     which is special-cased), we could improve the situation by
>>     caching the result.
>>
>>     Here's another attempt at that. This time it uses plain old JDK1
>>     stuff, so it actually works even in HashMap (using
>>     IdentityHashMap so no danger of circular usage if it is to be
>>     applied to CHM also):
>>
>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/Class.getGenericDerivative/webrev.01/
>>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eplevart/jdk9-dev/Class.getGenericDerivative/webrev.01/>
>>
>>     With this patch, the results of Bernd's JMH benchmark do give
>>     some boost to keys that implement Comparable (badDistWithComp case).
>>
>>     These are the results with original JDK9 HashMap:
>>
>>     Benchmark (initialSize)   Mode   Samples        Score Score
>>     error    Units
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     3104.047      278.057 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     2754.499      243.780 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     1031.992       26.422 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     1082.347       30.981 ms/op
>>
>>     And this is with patch applied:
>>
>>     Benchmark (initialSize)   Mode   Samples        Score Score
>>     error    Units
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistNoComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     3081.419      386.125 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.badDistWithComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     2116.030      281.160 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistNoComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     1015.224       81.843 ms/op
>>     j.t.HashMapCollision.goodDistWithComp 16   avgt         6    
>>     1078.719       38.351 ms/op
>>
>>
>>     Caching is performed as part of Class generic types information
>>     caching (ClassRepository), so there's no overhead for those that
>>     don't need generic types information. All logic is kept inside (C)HM.
>>
>>     Regards, Peter
>>
>>>
>>>     -Doug
>>>
>>
>>
>




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