X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.16.109 Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!nospam.fr.eu.org!usenet-fr.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method, Redux Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:30:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="20GYBuezvHpp83lA3Rh62Q"; logging-data="2263"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18N6HdWqcceRUroLLzJMDJLJ3ojp4smNs4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:H3zDpvWmj4bZMteQiwgrjG6GKOQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5619 Some other things I'd do: 1. Make life easier on the Mark I eyeball and print out your timing in seconds: System.out.println( " Duration=" + (Duration/1e9) ); 2. Specify your command line arguments. I found this affected the timing greatly (over 100% faster than in the IDE) . C:\Users\Brenden\Dev\Test2\src>javac -g:none test\CallingTest.java C:\Users\Brenden\Dev\Test2\src> C:\Users\Brenden\Dev\Test2\src>java -server test.CallingTest Timing Testing of Character Searching Character Sequential Search Duration=22.251718931 Character Binary Search Duration=21.492850347 Character Treeset Search Duration=19.472623928 Hash Test Duration=0.098741719 C:\Users\Brenden\Dev\Test2\src>