[Shootout-list] Java benchmarks

[Isaac Gouy]

Could you have this conversation with Keith Lea, and then get back to
us? He beat-us-up for using  the client compiler.

http://kano.net/javabench/


--- James McIlree <ovrskeek@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 	I'd like to raise an issue about the Java benchmarks. It looks to
> me as if they are all being run with the "-server" option.
> 
> 	Would it be possible to switch to the client compiler? I believe
> most of the benchmarks would actually complete quicker using the
> client
> compiler.
> 
> 	The shootout benchmarks are all so small and quick, the server
> compiler simply does not have time to pay for itself.
> 
> 	As a concrete example, here are timings for knucleotide:
> 
> IBM java
> 1.205u 0.073s 0:01.17 108.5%    0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> 
> Sun java (-client)
> 1.291u 0.053s 0:01.38 97.1%     0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
> 
> Sun java (-server)
> 1.785u 0.061s 0:01.45 126.8%    0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w
> 
> 	As you can see, it would be really nice to have the IBM jdk
> available for testing as well. It seems to be generally faster than
> the Sun jdk.
> 
> 	http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/


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