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Re:JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.un... by iscoelho on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:57AM (#39023805)
Sure, you're not wrong, but my focus was that the benchmark is indicative of the raw performance impact of bounds checks (when they are unable to elided) in a real world algorithm (as opposed to a micro-benchmark).

With that said, convincing a compiler to elide bounds checks (especially Java's JIT compiler) is a hugely frustrating (and for some algorithms futile) task.

It could be an argument that bounds checks make up a small percentage of total application performance. However, I've profiled production Java servers where >50% of the CPU was encryption/compression. JDK implementations of those algorithms are heavily impacted by (and commonly fail to elide) bounds checks.

Performance matters!

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Re:JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.un... by xxs on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:15AM (#39024341)
>With that said, convincing a compiler to elide bounds checks (especially Java's JIT compiler) is a hugely frustrating (and for some algorithms futile) task.

Adding explicit checks does work to a certain degree but it can change with the compiler, and it requires to keep checking the generated assembly - not fun (no unsafe, either but still)

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Re:JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.un... by iscoelho on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:49AM (#39025081)
These explicit checks are basically what I mean by "convincing the compiler" (and sometimes, it isn't quite convinced!) - Yeah. Not fun at all.

Especially in Java, because "the assembly" can change as the JIT evolves. What is optimized today may not be tomorrow.

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Re:JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.un... by xxs on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @03:56AM (#39025146)
Some 12-13y back (time does fly) Cliff Click (hotspot architect) had a series of blogs on optimizations, incl. the lattice checks (i.e. within bounds). Was quite insightful. It was called: "Too Much Theory" [0]

>What is optimized today may not be tomorrow.

Exactly. (Also most developers will have exceptionally hard time maintaining such code)

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120328222841/http://cliffc.org...

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Re:JEP Draft: Deprecate memory-access methods in sun.misc.un... by sitkack on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:33PM (#39034524)
I understand where you are coming from, but without comparing the generated assembly, we are comparing an implementation of bounds checks. I think we should have a bounds check instruction and operates concurrently.

I should play around this with this using a couple RISC-V cores.

> Performance matters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A by Emery Berger

Another, yesbut, encryption and compression are and will handled by on die accelerators.

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