gcj's IO performance vs blackdown JDK

Sat Dec 27 03:33:00 GMT 2003

On Dec 26, 2003, at 18:15, Mohan Embar wrote:
>> +jint java::io::BufferedReader::lineEnd (jint limit)
>> +{
>> + jchar *pbuf = elements (buffer) + pos;
>> + int i = pos;
>> + for (; i < limit; i++)
>> + {
>> + jchar ch = *pbuf++;
>> + if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r')
>> + break;
>> + }
>> + return i;
>> +}
>> By changing the above native code to this:
>> jint java::io::BufferedReader::lineEnd (jint limit)
> {
> jchar *pbuf = elements (buffer);
> int i = pos;
> for (; i < limit; i++)
> {
> jchar ch = pbuf[i];
> if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r')
> break;
> }
> return i;
> }

Try this instead it should give you even more.
Basically gcc holds tries to find loop variants and tries to combine 
them together
or split them apart which is what is happening in the second and third 
code.
My example should be faster but it might be slower, I have not looked 
into it that
much.
jint java::io::BufferedReader::lineEnd (jint limit)
{
 jchar *pbuf = elements (buffer) + pos;
 int i = 0;
 limit -= pos;
 for (; i < limit; i++)
 {
 jchar ch = pbuf[i];
 if (ch == '\n' || ch == '\r')
 break;
 }
 return i+pos;
}
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski