On Saturday, 1 March 2014 15:32:41 UTC+5:30, bob wrote:
>
> Case :
>
> clojure verison:
>
> (time (dotimes [n 10000000] (str n "another word"))) ;; take about 5000msec
>
> java version
>
>         long time = System.nanoTime();
>
>         for(int i=0 ; i<10000000 ;i++){
>             String a=i+"another word";
>         }
>       System.out.println(System.nanoTime()-time); 
>      
>
> The java version take about 500 msecs, I thought it might be caused by the 
> str implementation which is using string builder, and it might not be the 
> best choice in the case of no much string to concat, and then I replace 
> "another word" with 5 long strings as the parameter, however no surprise.
>
> I just wonder what make the difference, or how to find the difference.
>

Others have added useful points to this thread. Java string concatenation 
internally uses StringBuilder, so if you replace (str n "another word") 
with the following:

(let [sb (StringBuilder.)]
         (.append sb n)
         (.append sb "another word")
         (.toString sb))

..then the perf improves 1/4 to 1/3. Further, with the following tweak:

(let [sb (StringBuilder. 20)]  ; because StringBuilder allocates only 16 
chars by default on Oracle JRE
         (.append sb n)
         (.append sb "another word")
         (.toString sb))

..the perf improves from 1/3 to less than 1/2. Here we simply avoid double 
allocation in StringBuilder.

Other things I made sure were:

1. I used Criterium to measure
2. I used `-server` option
3. Made sure reflection warning was on

Shantanu

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