I am doing some tests with escape analysis in Java 7 in order to better understand what objects are eligible to stack allocation.
Here is the code I wrote to test stack allocation:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
public class EscapeAnalysis {
private static final long TIME_TO_TEST = 10L * 1000L; // 10s
static class Timestamp {
private long millis;
public Timestamp(long millis) {
this.millis = millis;
}
public long getTime() {
return millis;
}
public void setTime(long time) {
millis = time;
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
long r = 0;
System.out.println("test1");
r += test1();
System.out.println("test2");
r += test2();
System.out.println("test3");
r += test3();
System.out.println("test4");
r += test4();
System.out.println("test5");
r += test5();
System.out.println("test6");
r += test6();
System.out.println(r);
}
public static long test1() {
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
r += new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis()).getTime();
}
return r;
}
public static long test2() {
ArrayList<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>(1000);
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
l.add(i);
}
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
for (Iterator<Integer> it = l.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
r += it.next().longValue();
}
}
return r;
}
public static long test3() {
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
ts.setTime(42);
r += ts.getTime();
}
return r;
}
public static long test4() {
ArrayList<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>(1000);
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
l.add(i);
}
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
Iterator<Integer> it = l.iterator();
r += it.next().longValue();
r += it.next().longValue();
r += it.next().longValue();
r += it.next().longValue();
}
return r;
}
public static long test5() {
ArrayList<Integer> l = new ArrayList<Integer>(1000);
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
l.add(i);
}
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
Iterator<Integer> it = l.iterator();
for (int i = 0; i < l.size(); ++i) {
r += it.next().longValue();
}
}
return r;
}
public static long test6() {
long r = 0;
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while (System.currentTimeMillis() - start < TIME_TO_TEST) {
for (Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());
ts.getTime() > 0;
ts.setTime(ts.getTime() + System.currentTimeMillis())) {
r += ts.getTime();
}
}
return r;
}
}
And here is what it outputs with Java 7 on Linux
java -server -version
java version "1.7.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_02-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)
java -server -verbose:gc -XX:CompileThreshold=1 -cp bin EscapeAnalysis
test1
test2
[GC 15616K->352K(59776K), 0,0014270 secs]
[GC 15968K->288K(59776K), 0,0011790 secs]
[GC 15904K->288K(59776K), 0,0018170 secs]
[GC 15904K->288K(59776K), 0,0011100 secs]
[GC 15904K->288K(57152K), 0,0019790 secs]
[GC 15520K->320K(56896K), 0,0011670 secs]
[GC 15232K->284K(56256K), 0,0011440 secs]
test3
test4
test5
[GC 14876K->348K(55936K), 0,0005340 secs]
[GC 14620K->348K(56000K), 0,0004560 secs]
[GC 14300K->316K(55296K), 0,0004680 secs]
[GC 13948K->316K(55488K), 0,0003590 secs]
[GC 13692K->316K(54784K), 0,0004580 secs]
[GC 13436K->316K(54976K), 0,0005430 secs]
[GC 13180K->316K(54272K), 0,0004500 secs]
[GC 12924K->316K(54464K), 0,0005090 secs]
[GC 12668K->316K(53760K), 0,0004490 secs]
[GC 12412K->316K(53888K), 0,0004350 secs]
[GC 12156K->316K(53312K), 0,0005060 secs]
test6
6737499643744733086
I am using GC logs to known whether objects were allocated on the stack (idea from Escape analysis in Java) which might not be 100% reliable but seems to give good hints.
Baed on the output, stack allocation works for test1, test3, test4 and test6 and doesn't work for test2 and test5. I don't understand why this doesn't work with an iterator in for-loop although it works
- with an iterator outside a for-loop (see test4),
- with another object inside a for-loop (see test6).
I have read the code for the ArrayList iterator and I don't understand why it would not be eligible for stack allocation in tests 2 and 5 since it does neither escape the current method nor the current thread.
Any idea?
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