From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T16:45:22+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C - Part 3, Source code now available

Charles O Nutter wrote:
> Ok, so there's a bunch of problems with the Java version.
>
> - In addition to the addRow run and the Java startup time you're also
> benchmarking over 5200 array modifications to set Compared values to true

That was simple because I couldn't define the array when I declared it 
as I did in C.

> - Your variable naming is entirely contrary to every Java coding 
> convention
> published (not a benchmark thing, but it sets off any Java devs warning
> flags)

And this affects the performance?

> - Almost all of the time spent running is spent building and printing
> strings
>
> Benchmarking just the algorithm run itself with no gross string 
> creation and
> printing, I'm getting in the neighborhood of 370ms per invocation once
> HotSpot has optimized the code. I'll have more detailed numbers shortly.
>