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Jason Martin
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.

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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Mike Cowlishaw
 
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is. 
 
It's not, but it is a hint to the reader that no line is missing there.  i.e., pass 2 does nothing.
 
It will have no effect on performance (other than a negligible increase in compile time of the compiler).
 
Mike 

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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Jason Martin
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What about just a comment in the code to get that negligible increase?

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File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Mike Cowlishaw
Yes, the line could have been:
 
  -- nop for other passes
 
Apologies for not writing that.    Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-).  Recall that I was documenting and then implementing between 500--1000 lines of code a day, for several months, at that time.  In retrospect I should have taken a weekend or two off .. :-)
 
Mike
 


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Sent: 10 September 2015 18:12
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Subject: Re: [Ibm-netrexx] possible small speed-up fixme

What about just a comment in the code to get that negligible increase?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Tom Maynard
You've earned your retirement, Mike ... as have we all ... the hard way.

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Yes, the line could have been:
 
  -- nop for other passes
 
Apologies for not writing that.    Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-).  Recall that I was documenting and then implementing between 500--1000 lines of code a day, for several months, at that time.  In retrospect I should have taken a weekend or two off .. :-)
 
Mike
 


From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jason Martin
Sent: 10 September 2015 18:12
To: IBM Netrexx
Subject: Re: [Ibm-netrexx] possible small speed-up fixme

What about just a comment in the code to get that negligible increase?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Jason Martin
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The code is excellent, sometimes, I am just trying to understand the logic behind it.

Have a nice day.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Aviatrexx
Perfect example of the "critical comma", Jason.  We assume you meant
the first comma to make the "sometimes" apply to "trying to understand".

If there had been only the second comma, the "sometimes" would have
referred to the code's excellence.

By using both commas, the sentence is ambiguous and you can have it
both ways... :-/

Coincidentally, there is a (now waning) thread on Regina-L concerning
the effect of NOP on executable code, e.g.

   Do 16000000; Nop; End

is slower than

   Do 16000000; End

-Chip-

On 9/10/2015 2:50 PM, Jason Martin wrote:
> The code is excellent, sometimes, I am just trying to understand the
> logic behind it.

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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

George Hovey-2
@Mike
Presumably you did not have time to maintain a journal.  It might have been as influential as The Mythical Man Month.

George

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Chip Davis <[hidden email]> wrote:
Perfect example of the "critical comma", Jason.  We assume you meant the first comma to make the "sometimes" apply to "trying to understand".

If there had been only the second comma, the "sometimes" would have referred to the code's excellence.

By using both commas, the sentence is ambiguous and you can have it both ways... :-/

Coincidentally, there is a (now waning) thread on Regina-L concerning the effect of NOP on executable code, e.g.

  Do 16000000; Nop; End

is slower than

  Do 16000000; End

-Chip-

On 9/10/2015 2:50 PM, Jason Martin wrote:
The code is excellent, sometimes, I am just trying to understand the
logic behind it.

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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

Mike Cowlishaw
 
@Mike
Presumably you did not have time to maintain a journal.  It might have been as influential as The Mythical Man Month.

 Well, I do have the change log ... not very interesting reading, though :-)
 
Mike 

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Jason Martin
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I would not take the the second coma to heart. I never was great at English and it is definitely not an example of a doing something right. 

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Jason Martin
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But you read it and understood it. Machines are not as forgiving. 

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

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Hi Chip,

while playing with this in NetRexx, I came upon a result that I did not want to withhold. I turns out that a single nop executed on its own is slower than a nop in a loop of 100.000 :

➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat nop.nrx
say System.currentTimeMillis()
nop
say System.currentTimeMillis()
➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat loopnop.nrx
say System.currentTimeMillis()
loop for 100000
        nop
end
say System.currentTimeMillis()%                                                                                    ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop      
1442745275500
1442745275505
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop  
1442745280506
1442745280509
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop    
1442745286482
1442745286487
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
1442745289268
1442745289272
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop    
1442745294057
1442745294062
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
1442745297432
1442745297434
➜  test git:(master) ✗

This is what nop.nrx generates for jvm bytecode:
Compiled from "nop.java"
public class nop {
  public static void main(java.lang.String[]);
    Code:
       0: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
       3: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
       6: pop
       7: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
      10: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
      13: pop
      14: return
}

And this is loopnop.nrx:

➜  test git:(master) ✗ javap -c loopnop
Compiled from "loopnop.java"
public class loopnop {
  public static void main(java.lang.String[]);
    Code:
       0: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
       3: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
       6: pop
       7: getstatic     #3                  // Field $01:Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
      10: aconst_null
      11: invokevirtual #4                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx.OpPlus:(Lnetrexx/lang/RexxSet;)Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
      14: invokevirtual #5                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx.toint:()I
      17: istore_1
      18: iload_1
      19: ifle          28
      22: iinc          1, -1
      25: goto          18
      28: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
      31: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
      34: pop
      35: return

  static {};
    Code:
       0: new           #7                  // class netrexx/lang/Rexx
       3: dup
       4: ldc           #8                  // int 100000
       6: invokespecial #9                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx."<init>":(I)V
       9: putstatic     #3                  // Field $01:Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
      12: return
}


Note that both do not generate anything to execute a ‘nop'; the second program has some more instructions for setting up the loop; so why is it some milliseconds faster?

If you rig the jvm with some switches and a dynamic deassembler:

java -Xbatch -XX:-TieredCompilation -XX:+PrintCompilation -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly -XX:PrintAssemblyOptions=intel loopnop >loopnop.asm

(you get a very large listing and)

you see that in both cases the jvm compiler is smart enough to see that nothing happens here, and the only thing that is being compiled to intel machine instructions are some lowlevel java.nio UFT8 character stuff and the static currentTimeMillis and Say methods:

  0x0000000104c9a64c: movabs r10,0x1040595b6
>   0x0000000104c9a656: call   r10                ;*invokestatic currentTimeMillis
>                                                 ; - loopnop::main@28 (line 5)
>
>   0x0000000104c9a659: mov    rsi,rax
>   0x0000000104c9a65c: data32 xchg ax,ax
>   0x0000000104c9a65f: call   0x0000000104c68160  ; OopMap{off=68}
>                                                 ;*invokestatic Say
>                                                 ; - loopnop::main@31 (line 5)
>                                                 ;   {static_call}

You can see that then the address of the currentTimeMillis is moved to register 10 and that routine is then called. ‘Say’ is called through the jvm’s invokestatic call.
Funny thing is, the assembly generated for both programs is virtually the same. When we try to run interpreted only, we get:

➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint nop                
1442763233552
1442763233558
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint loopnop
1442763239989
1442763239991

The one with the loop around the nop is still faster.

We can also profile this run:

➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint -Xprof nop
1442763073604
1442763073609

Flat profile of 0,04 secs (2 total ticks): main

  Interpreted + native   Method                        
 50,0%     0  +     1    java.lang.System.arraycopy
 50,0%     0  +     1    java.util.zip.ZipFile.open
100,0%     0  +     2    Total interpreted


Flat profile of 0,00 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM

  Thread-local ticks:
100,0%     1             Blocked (of total)


Global summary of 0,04 seconds:
100,0%     3             Received ticks
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint -Xprof loopnop
1442763075380
1442763075382

Flat profile of 0,06 secs (4 total ticks): main

  Interpreted + native   Method                        
 25,0%     0  +     1    java.util.zip.ZipFile.open
 25,0%     0  +     1    java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1
 25,0%     1  +     0    loopnop.<clinit>
 25,0%     1  +     0    sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.load
100,0%     2  +     2    Total interpreted

We see that the jvm itself is also calling some routines, and we see that that timestamp call even reads a file.

So while we don’t know exactly yet why not executing a nop in a not running loop is faster, it is what we measure. So I think we do not have to worry too much about that nop.

best regards,

René.


> On 10 sep. 2015, at 22:36, Chip Davis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
> Coincidentally, there is a (now waning) thread on Regina-L concerning the effect of NOP on executable code, e.g.
>
>  Do 16000000; Nop; End
>
> is slower than
>
>  Do 16000000; End
>
> -Chip-
>
> On 9/10/2015 2:50 PM, Jason Martin wrote:
>> The code is excellent, sometimes, I am just trying to understand the
>> logic behind it.
>
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ThSITC
It might well be, Rene, that the TIME to MEASURE a single NOP is *too
small*  to capture the REAL time ;-)

By the way: what is INVOKESTATIC  #n ??
Thomas .
=========================================================================================

Am 20/09/2015 um 17:37 schrieb René Jansen:

> Hi Chip,
>
> while playing with this in NetRexx, I came upon a result that I did not want to withhold. I turns out that a single nop executed on its own is slower than a nop in a loop of 100.000 :
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat nop.nrx
> say System.currentTimeMillis()
> nop
> say System.currentTimeMillis()
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat loopnop.nrx
> say System.currentTimeMillis()
> loop for 100000
> nop
> end
> say System.currentTimeMillis()%                                                                                    ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 1442745275500
> 1442745275505
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 1442745280506
> 1442745280509
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 1442745286482
> 1442745286487
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 1442745289268
> 1442745289272
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 1442745294057
> 1442745294062
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 1442745297432
> 1442745297434
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗
>
> This is what nop.nrx generates for jvm bytecode:
> Compiled from "nop.java"
> public class nop {
>    public static void main(java.lang.String[]);
>      Code:
>         0: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
>         3: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
>         6: pop
>         7: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
>        10: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
>        13: pop
>        14: return
> }
>
> And this is loopnop.nrx:
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ javap -c loopnop
> Compiled from "loopnop.java"
> public class loopnop {
>    public static void main(java.lang.String[]);
>      Code:
>         0: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
>         3: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
>         6: pop
>         7: getstatic     #3                  // Field $01:Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
>        10: aconst_null
>        11: invokevirtual #4                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx.OpPlus:(Lnetrexx/lang/RexxSet;)Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
>        14: invokevirtual #5                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx.toint:()I
>        17: istore_1
>        18: iload_1
>        19: ifle          28
>        22: iinc          1, -1
>        25: goto          18
>        28: invokestatic  #1                  // Method java/lang/System.currentTimeMillis:()J
>        31: invokestatic  #2                  // Method netrexx/lang/RexxIO.Say:(J)Z
>        34: pop
>        35: return
>
>    static {};
>      Code:
>         0: new           #7                  // class netrexx/lang/Rexx
>         3: dup
>         4: ldc           #8                  // int 100000
>         6: invokespecial #9                  // Method netrexx/lang/Rexx."<init>":(I)V
>         9: putstatic     #3                  // Field $01:Lnetrexx/lang/Rexx;
>        12: return
> }
>
>
> Note that both do not generate anything to execute a ‘nop'; the second program has some more instructions for setting up the loop; so why is it some milliseconds faster?
>
> If you rig the jvm with some switches and a dynamic deassembler:
>
> java -Xbatch -XX:-TieredCompilation -XX:+PrintCompilation -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+PrintAssembly -XX:PrintAssemblyOptions=intel loopnop >loopnop.asm
>
> (you get a very large listing and)
>
> you see that in both cases the jvm compiler is smart enough to see that nothing happens here, and the only thing that is being compiled to intel machine instructions are some lowlevel java.nio UFT8 character stuff and the static currentTimeMillis and Say methods:
>
>    0x0000000104c9a64c: movabs r10,0x1040595b6
>>    0x0000000104c9a656: call   r10                ;*invokestatic currentTimeMillis
>>                                                  ; - loopnop::main@28 (line 5)
>>
>>    0x0000000104c9a659: mov    rsi,rax
>>    0x0000000104c9a65c: data32 xchg ax,ax
>>    0x0000000104c9a65f: call   0x0000000104c68160  ; OopMap{off=68}
>>                                                  ;*invokestatic Say
>>                                                  ; - loopnop::main@31 (line 5)
>>                                                  ;   {static_call}
> You can see that then the address of the currentTimeMillis is moved to register 10 and that routine is then called. ‘Say’ is called through the jvm’s invokestatic call.
> Funny thing is, the assembly generated for both programs is virtually the same. When we try to run interpreted only, we get:
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint nop
> 1442763233552
> 1442763233558
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint loopnop
> 1442763239989
> 1442763239991
>
> The one with the loop around the nop is still faster.
>
> We can also profile this run:
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint -Xprof nop
> 1442763073604
> 1442763073609
>
> Flat profile of 0,04 secs (2 total ticks): main
>
>    Interpreted + native   Method
>   50,0%     0  +     1    java.lang.System.arraycopy
>   50,0%     0  +     1    java.util.zip.ZipFile.open
> 100,0%     0  +     2    Total interpreted
>
>
> Flat profile of 0,00 secs (1 total ticks): DestroyJavaVM
>
>    Thread-local ticks:
> 100,0%     1             Blocked (of total)
>
>
> Global summary of 0,04 seconds:
> 100,0%     3             Received ticks
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java -Xint -Xprof loopnop
> 1442763075380
> 1442763075382
>
> Flat profile of 0,06 secs (4 total ticks): main
>
>    Interpreted + native   Method
>   25,0%     0  +     1    java.util.zip.ZipFile.open
>   25,0%     0  +     1    java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1
>   25,0%     1  +     0    loopnop.<clinit>
>   25,0%     1  +     0    sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.load
> 100,0%     2  +     2    Total interpreted
>
> We see that the jvm itself is also calling some routines, and we see that that timestamp call even reads a file.
>
> So while we don’t know exactly yet why not executing a nop in a not running loop is faster, it is what we measure. So I think we do not have to worry too much about that nop.
>
> best regards,
>
> René.
>
>
>> On 10 sep. 2015, at 22:36, Chip Davis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Coincidentally, there is a (now waning) thread on Regina-L concerning the effect of NOP on executable code, e.g.
>>
>>   Do 16000000; Nop; End
>>
>> is slower than
>>
>>   Do 16000000; End
>>
>> -Chip-
>>
>> On 9/10/2015 2:50 PM, Jason Martin wrote:
>>> The code is excellent, sometimes, I am just trying to understand the
>>> logic behind it.
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Although the loading of a timezones file makes me think twice about how suitable System.currentTimeMillis is for this purpose, the main conclusion of this exercise was that there is no executable code generated for a nop, so there is nothing to measure. I looked into this file-reading issue and found System.nanoTime, which has a much higher resolution.

Invokestatic is a bytecode instruction for the jvm, generated by a java compiler. It instructs the jvm runtime to call a static method. There are invokevirtual, invokeinterface and invokedynamic instructions, for several types of methods. Each java class is associated with a virtual method table that contains pointers to the bytecode of each method of a class. That table is inherited from the superclass of a particular class and extended with regard to the new methods of a subclass. Those are called using invokevirtual. Invokedynamic is the latest introduction and might be of interest to netrexx; around the api to use it in java programs the dust is just settling, and it will be an interesting task to ponder where it should be employed to the advantage of netrexx.

The #n is the method (pointer) that has been loaded at that location on the stack. Javap helps us by printing that as a comment after the invocation.

So the point of my email was that unlike Classic and ooRexx, the very aggresive optimization of the java compiler renders the introduction of nop statements a non-problem.

But prompted by your observation I re-ran the programs with System.nanoTime() and got more reasonable outcomes. At least I now can measure the time an empty loop takes.

The programs are now as follows:

➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat nop.nrx    
options binary
a = long System.nanoTime()
nop
b = long System.nanoTime()
say b - a

➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat loopnop.nrx
options binary
a = System.nanoTime()
loop for 100000
        nop
end
b = System.nanoTime()
say b - a

And the results now are:

➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop        
180
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
160
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
157
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
201
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
187
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
158
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
612817
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
598831
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
599397
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
620352
➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
640828

Which, I think, is in line with expectations.


best regards,

René.


> On 20 sep. 2015, at 17:51, Thomas Schneider <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> It might well be, Rene, that the TIME to MEASURE a single NOP is *too small*  to capture the REAL time ;-)
>
> By the way: what is INVOKESTATIC  #n ??
> Thomas .
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> Am 20/09/2015 um 17:37 schrieb René Jansen:

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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

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Rene & all,

I personally *think* that we shall *not pounder* our energies with NOP
statements, but with possible
NEW statements ...

I'm still feeling that NetRexx should implement REPORT, PRINT, DISPLAY,
SHOW, etc, etc,
as specified long time ago on KENAI.

I did make an error, however: Didn't implement them in Core NetRexx :-(

... and Kermit did delete my proposed language extentions, due to lack
of implementations  ...
My Fault, Sorry :-(

Did, however, implement them ...
So what ?

Thomas.
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Am 21/09/2015 um 15:04 schrieb René Jansen:

> Although the loading of a timezones file makes me think twice about how suitable System.currentTimeMillis is for this purpose, the main conclusion of this exercise was that there is no executable code generated for a nop, so there is nothing to measure. I looked into this file-reading issue and found System.nanoTime, which has a much higher resolution.
>
> Invokestatic is a bytecode instruction for the jvm, generated by a java compiler. It instructs the jvm runtime to call a static method. There are invokevirtual, invokeinterface and invokedynamic instructions, for several types of methods. Each java class is associated with a virtual method table that contains pointers to the bytecode of each method of a class. That table is inherited from the superclass of a particular class and extended with regard to the new methods of a subclass. Those are called using invokevirtual. Invokedynamic is the latest introduction and might be of interest to netrexx; around the api to use it in java programs the dust is just settling, and it will be an interesting task to ponder where it should be employed to the advantage of netrexx.
>
> The #n is the method (pointer) that has been loaded at that location on the stack. Javap helps us by printing that as a comment after the invocation.
>
> So the point of my email was that unlike Classic and ooRexx, the very aggresive optimization of the java compiler renders the introduction of nop statements a non-problem.
>
> But prompted by your observation I re-ran the programs with System.nanoTime() and got more reasonable outcomes. At least I now can measure the time an empty loop takes.
>
> The programs are now as follows:
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat nop.nrx
> options binary
> a = long System.nanoTime()
> nop
> b = long System.nanoTime()
> say b - a
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ cat loopnop.nrx
> options binary
> a = System.nanoTime()
> loop for 100000
> nop
> end
> b = System.nanoTime()
> say b - a
>
> And the results now are:
>
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 180
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 160
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 157
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 201
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 187
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java nop
> 158
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 612817
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 598831
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 599397
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 620352
> ➜  test git:(master) ✗ java loopnop
> 640828
>
> Which, I think, is in line with expectations.
>
>
> best regards,
>
> René.
>
>
>> On 20 sep. 2015, at 17:51, Thomas Schneider <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> It might well be, Rene, that the TIME to MEASURE a single NOP is *too small*  to capture the REAL time ;-)
>>
>> By the way: what is INVOKESTATIC  #n ??
>> Thomas .
>> =========================================================================================
>>
>> Am 20/09/2015 um 17:37 schrieb René Jansen:
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Re: possible small speed-up fixme

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René, I think you and others for the time and research done related to this post.
I think it was definitely worth it. At the least, it was another feather for NetRexx.
It also shows your dedication to your position. Thanks.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Jason Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
File:  NrMethodcall.nrx

Line 52

 /** Pass processing */
 method scan(pass=int)
  if pass<2 then signal RxQuit(rxt, null, 'internal.error', 'NrMethodcall', pass)
  nop


Check if NOP statement necessary?

Do not think it is.


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