On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 06:29:43 GMT, Сергей Цыпанов <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I found out that reading from `DataInputStream` wrapping > `ByteArrayInputStream` (as well as `BufferedInputStream` or any `InputStream` > relying on `byte[]`) can be significantly improved by accessing volatile `in` > field only once per operation. > > Current implementation does it for each call of `in.read()`, i.e. in > `readInt()` method we do it 4 times: > > public final int readInt() throws IOException { > int ch1 = in.read(); > int ch2 = in.read(); > int ch3 = in.read(); > int ch4 = in.read(); > if ((ch1 | ch2 | ch3 | ch4) < 0) > throw new EOFException(); > return ((ch1 << 24) + (ch2 << 16) + (ch3 << 8) + (ch4 << 0)); > } > > Apparently accessing volatile reference with underlying `byte[]` prevents > runtime from doing some optimizations, so dereferencing local variable should > be more efficient. > > Benchmarking: > > baseline: > > Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units > DataInputStreamTest.readChar avgt 20 22,889 ± 0,648 us/op > DataInputStreamTest.readInt avgt 20 21,804 ± 0,197 us/op > > patch: > > Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units > DataInputStreamTest.readChar avgt 20 11,018 ± 0,089 us/op > DataInputStreamTest.readInt avgt 20 5,608 ± 0,087 us/op I've revert dubious changes ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9956