RE: Speed Impact experiment on GCJ

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi Rui,
 > 
 > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 01:41 +0000, Rui Wang wrote:
 > > Having compiled the code with -O3 flag, it runs much faster compare to
 > > previous one. Thanks. 
 > 
 > Great. Please do post the results so people can compare with the
 > unoptimized version. It is interesting to see how different ways to
 > compile a program impact the speed.

I tried gcj against IBM's JIT -- still the fastest JIT AFAIAA.
(Disclaimer: this is an old 32-bit version of IBM's JIT, and a newer
one may be better.)

I get:

[aph@zorro ~]$ java -version
java version "1.4.2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2)
Classic VM (build 1.4.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM build cxia32142-20041210 (JIT enabled: jitc))

[aph@zorro ~]$ gcj --version
gcj (GCC) 4.1.0 20060128 (Red Hat 4.1.0-0.17)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IBM without a JIT:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time java -Djava.compiler=none Client task.test servers.d result.d
Warning: JIT compiler "none" not found. Will use interpreter.

real    1m6.508s
user    1m6.340s
sys     0m0.016s

200.0   9315
300.0   13993
400.0   18636
500.0   23271

IBM with a JIT:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time java Client task.test servers.d result.d

real    0m2.521s
user    0m2.480s
sys     0m0.024s

200.0   334
300.0   501
400.0   671
500.0   835

gcj at -O0:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time ./client task.test servers.d result.d
time ./client task.test servers.d result.d

real    0m6.982s
user    0m6.932s
sys     0m0.024s

200.0   997
300.0   1475
400.0   1988
500.0   2491

gcj at -O3:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time ./client task.test servers.d result.d

real    0m1.236s
user    0m1.220s
sys     0m0.016s

200.0   167
300.0   252
400.0   336
500.0   425

32-bit mode doesn't seem to make any difference to us.  gcj at -O3 -m32:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time ./client task.test servers.d result.d

real    0m1.236s
user    0m1.228s
sys     0m0.008s

200.0   167
300.0   251
400.0   335
500.0   418

And, just for laughs, gij:

[aph@zorro ~]$ time gij Client task.test servers.d result.d 

real    0m41.280s
user    0m41.047s
sys     0m0.024s

200.0   5804
300.0   8685
400.0   11587
500.0   14468

Andrew.