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Robert Klemme wrote :
> On 14.03.2013 11:07, Wojtek wrote:
>
>> So NIO is about 4-5 times faster than IO. The first NIO run looks like
>> an anomoly, might be some JRE loading happening.
>>
>> All the runs produce different timings, might be a Windows caching
>> effect. However the NIO is consistently much faster overall.
>
> I am not convinced that this conclusion is warranted.  There are a few 
> factors which I believe make your conclusion questionable:
>
> - You included class loading time in your measurement.  For example, assuming 
> that all io functionality is implemented on top of nio it would be logical to 
> expect more classes to be loaded.  There are a number of use cases where it 
> matters - but there are also use cases where it doesn't matter (long running 
> servers).

The class loading would be part of a real project. The alternative is 
to keep an object around which holds a link to a directory. Actually 
many objects linked to many directories. Also the file list will change 
as files are added and deleted.

> - Generally we are dealing with quite low timings (around 100ms) and 
> relatively high variations.  Also the test was made on Windows and the 
> System.currentTimeMillis() is known to be imprecise on that platform (in the 
> order of tens of milliseconds).

Fair enough.

> - Your io approach does not use FileFilter which some have suggested to be a 
> way to avoid constructing a large result array.

Yes, but to filter the result still means loading each file name, then 
checking to see if it matches the filter.

> - The test is an artificial situation.  With all factors like JVM involved it 
> may be that in a realistic application things look different to an extent 
> that the differences you measured here do not matter any more.

While the absolute times may be questionable, the relative times are 
consistent.

-- 
Wojtek :-)

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  Re: The first 10 files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-26 02:44 -0800
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  Re: The first 10 files "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 06:31 -0500
    Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-26 15:42 -0800
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      Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 21:21 -0500
      Re: The first 10 files "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-26 22:05 -0500
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      Re: The first 10 files Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-01-26 22:15 +0100
        Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 16:25 -0500
        Re: The first 10 files Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-01-26 17:06 -0500
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                Re: The first 10 files Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-01-26 21:56 -0500
                Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:51 -0700
                Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:47 -0700
              Re: The first 10 files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-01-26 22:02 -0400
                Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 21:35 -0500
                Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 21:43 -0500
                Re: The first 10 files Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-01-27 13:55 +0100
                Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-24 17:50 -0500
                Re: The first 10 files Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-02-25 21:53 +0100
                Re: The first 10 files Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2013-01-26 20:57 -0700
                Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-26 21:20 -0800
                Re: The first 10 files Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-01-27 07:23 -0400
                Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-27 20:36 -0500
                Re: The first 10 files Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2013-01-28 16:28 -0800
            Re: The first 10 files Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-26 21:23 -0500
            Re: The first 10 files Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-01-26 19:09 -0800
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      Re: The first 10 files Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-15 11:38 +0100
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