Java Performance Puzzlers by Douglas Hawkins

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Java Performance Puzzlers by Douglas Hawkins

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Everyone worries about performance but few of us have the time to truly understand it. Fortunately, our modern JVMs and CPUs are capable of some amazing performance tricks, but those same tricks only make reasoning about performance that much harder.
In this talk, we'll take a look at some surprising and often unintuitive performance problems and solutions. Not simply with the goal of memorizing solutions but also to better understand the complexity that lies inside both JVMs and CPUs.
Douglas Hawkins has been passionately developing software for the past 10 years -- creating applications for bioinformatics, finance, and retail.
But Doug's true interest has always been VM internals. Now a VM engineer at Azul Systems, he works on Azul's Zing VM full-time and is the lead developer of Azul's ReadyNow technology.

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@nO_d3N1AL 7 жыл бұрын

Performance talks like this rarely disappoint. Some might call it trivia, but it's nice to understand what's going on behind the scenes, especially when optimising performance.

@StefanReich 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was a great talk. Even Java oldtimers like me learned a few things here

@chinmayachowdary 7 жыл бұрын

Wow! Excellent.

@heinzkabutz 5 жыл бұрын

By default Vector doubles the number of elements when you run out of space. We can override that behaviour by constructing it with a capacityIncrement, but hardly anyone ever does that.

@dhawaljoshi Жыл бұрын

really interesting insights

@SprockPls 4 жыл бұрын

I love this guy, He's pretty funny XD

@AndrewKay 6 жыл бұрын

At 37:10, the claim about O(n log n) is wrong - exponential resizing really does take only O(n) operations to build a collection of n items. If the scale factor is 2, for example, then the total number of copies is up to n + n/2 + n/4 + ... + 2 + 1. This is a geometric sequence with a sum of 2n - 1, which is O(n). The same is true for any other scale factor.

@NovaCyn 6 жыл бұрын

He's talking about vector. vector as he said a few seconds before does NOT scale exponentially (with a factor) What you say is true of all the OTHER collections

@jonaskoelker 3 жыл бұрын

> exponential resizing really does take only O(n) [...] [n + n/2 + ... + 1 = an + b which is in O(n)] I'd like to restate this in plain terms. The speaker did say something right: there is a copy every log n iterations*. However: most of those copies are a lot smaller than the size of the final array. That's why it's O(n) and not O(n log n). (* approximately. If the starting size is 10 rather than 1, the first few copy operations can be skipped. So it's (log n) - (log 10) or something. Still O(log n) though.)

@StefanReich 2 жыл бұрын

@@NovaCyn My God it's true - it grows by 1 every time another element is added! So adding n elements takes O(n^2). That makes Vector pretty much unusable... but thankfully no one is using it anymore anyway

@NovaCyn 2 жыл бұрын

@@StefanReich You can actually set the growth size, so that's something. But yes that's still O(n^2) to add n elements