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Profile and optimize your Java code

Profile and optimize your Java code. Gabriel Laden CS 146 – Dr. Sin-Min Lee Spring 2004. Introduction. O(n) notation is one thing Performance of your coded algorithm is another thing!!! This demo will use Homework #3 “ICBaseCycle” problem. Where to start testing?.

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Profile and optimize your Java code

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  1. Profile and optimizeyour Java code Gabriel Laden CS 146 – Dr. Sin-Min Lee Spring 2004

  2. Introduction • O(n) notation is one thing • Performance of your coded algorithm is another thing!!! • This demo will use Homework #3 “ICBaseCycle” problem

  3. Where to start testing? • To find run-time between two sequential lines in your code insert the following: System.currentTimeMillis();

  4. The 80/20 rule • Your code spends 80% of its time in 20% of the code, or so they say… • How to find this hotspot in your code without just guessing : java –Xprof class [args]

  5. java –Xprof class [args] • -Xprof is a built-in profiler for your code • It tells you what % time is spent in running and other Java administrative tasks • Caution: eliminate your user I/O and other things like that which are not constant and will throw off your testing results

  6. Other interesting java –X options • -Xloggc:<file> log GC status to a file with time stamps Note: see use later in presentation • -Xmx<size> set maximum Java heap size Note: 64M is default, good use is for problems of moderately larger size, (go buy more memory at Fry’s) • -Xss<size> set java thread stack size Note: good use in recursive problems

  7. javap - The Java Class File Disassembler javap [options] class • The javap command disassembles a class file. Its output depends on the options used. If no options are used, javap prints out the package, protected, and public fields and methods of the classes passed to it. • -c option prints out disassembled code, i.e., the instructions that comprise the Java bytecodes

  8. Most Important Step!!! • Find your inner-most loop that is in method with largest run-time % • Re-write this loop to be most efficient • This is where O(n) notation theory can be applied to your algorithm

  9. Java handles your garbage • So don’t forget to analyze this!!! • java -Xloggc:<file> class • The cost of gc also implies the cost of the allocation • The number of lines written to filegc will be evidence of the garbage collector activity • Look in your code for unneccessary allocations • Re-order processing to keep heap size to a minimum

  10. Try a few different things • Is your sort algorithm really the best one? • Is your data structure really the best one? • Save your working program to a backup!!! • Compare run-times with different sorts • Do the least # operations to get your output

  11. Summary • v1 original code • v2 inner loop re-write / algorithm design • v3 minimize allocations • v4 improved version (…repeat (1-4) if necessary) • v5 final version

  12. // version 1 private boolean sumElements(int[] permutation){ //generate sumation of terms 1+2+3+...+p int walk, sum; int index = 0; int[] partSums = new int[p * (p-1) + 1]; // i = length of the elements of sum for(int i=1; i<p; i++){ //j = starting index for(int j=0; j<p; j++){ sum = 0; walk = j; //k = loop for summation for(int k=0; k<i; k++){ if(walk == p){ walk = 0; } sum += permutation[walk++]; } partSums[index++] = sum; } }// (con’t next slide…)

  13. // version 1 (con’t) //add last element sum of all elements partSums[index] = n; //qsort rewritten from QSortAlgorithm.java in j2sdk demo directory QSort.qsort(partSums, 0, partSums.length-1); //step through array to verify success int consecutive = 1; for(int i=1; i<partSums.length; i++){ if(partSums[i] == consecutive + 1){ consecutive++; } else if(partSums[i] > consecutive + 1){ return false; } } return true; }

  14. // version 5 private boolean sumElements(int[] permutation, boolean[] partIndexes){ //generate sumation of terms 1+2+3+...+p int value, walk; int pMinusOne = p - 1; Arrays.fill(partIndexes, false); for(int i=0; i<p; i++){ walk = i + 1; partIndexes[(value = permutation[i])] = true; for(int j=1; j<pMinusOne; j++, walk++){ partIndexes[(value += permutation[walk])] = true; } } //skip over index 0, not used //skip over index 1 & 2, always true for(int i=3; i<partIndexes.length; i++){ if(partIndexes[i] == false){ return false; } } return true; }

  15. C:\cs146_profiling>java hw3.v1.ICBaseCycle 8 57 Here is a set of valid arrays 1 8 11 3 18 10 2 4 1 12 2 6 3 7 22 4 1 5 15 7 16 2 8 3 1 8 2 3 21 4 12 6 1 6 17 12 2 11 5 3 1 2 10 19 4 7 9 5 # of solutions: 6 Total compute-time: 110.328 seconds C:\cs146_profiling>java hw3.v5.ICBaseCycle 8 57 Here is a set of valid arrays 1 8 11 3 18 10 2 4 1 12 2 6 3 7 22 4 1 5 15 7 16 2 8 3 1 8 2 3 21 4 12 6 1 6 17 12 2 11 5 3 1 2 10 19 4 7 9 5 # of solutions: 6 Total compute-time: 10.078 seconds

  16. Conclusion • Easy to start learning how to test the performance on our homework problems • Later you will be running large scale applications with multi-tier enterprise applications with networking and database, etc. it will be a lot harder to start learning how to optimize then!!!

  17. References • Effective Java - Joshua Bloch • Java Platform Performance – Steve Wilson • Core Java v.2 – Cay Horstmann

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