I recently read that in newer computers Java's I/O performs better than NIO because of the new availability of multi-core machines.
I ran a quick test comparing the transfer time of I/O and NIO over the LAN using the localhost loopback address.
Note: This is using JDK 7
The results (3 trials):
I/O transfers averaged 21789.3ms
NIO transfers averaged 22771.0ms
It is also worth noting that CPU usage appeared to be around 10% higher on each NIO transfer as compared to the I/O.
My question for you is if my comparison code is fair? Did I write good/equal I/O and NIO code? If not, how can I improve and re-run this test?
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Initiating test sequence...");
new Thread(new Client()).start();
try {
System.out.println("Server I/O initiating...");
ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket(5555);
Socket sock = server.accept();
System.out.println("Server connected to client successfully");
InputStream is = sock.getInputStream();
File output = new File("C:/test_root/video.avi");
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(output);
byte[] data = new byte[1024];
int len=0;
System.out.println("Server initiating transfer - Timer starting");
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while((len=is.read(data))>0) {
fos.write(data, 0, len);
fos.flush();
}
fos.close();
is.close();
sock.close();
server.close();
long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Network I/O transfer time = "+(end-start)+"ms");
System.out.println("Server NIO initiating...");
ServerSocketChannel serverChan = ServerSocketChannel.open();
serverChan.bind(new InetSocketAddress(5555));
SocketChannel chan = serverChan.accept();
chan.configureBlocking(false);
System.out.println("Server channel connected");
FileChannel fc = (FileChannel) Files.newByteChannel(Paths.get("C:/test_root/video.avi"), StandardOpenOption.CREATE, StandardOpenOption.WRITE);
ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
System.out.println("Server initiating transfer - Timer starting");
start = System.currentTimeMillis();
while(chan.read(buff)>=0 || buff.position() > 0) {
buff.flip();
fc.write(buff);
buff.compact();
}
chan.close();
fc.close();
serverChan.close();
end = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Network NIO transfer time = "+(end-start)+"ms");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Test completed!");
}
static class Client implements Runnable {
public void run() {
try {
System.out.println("Client I/O initiating...");
Socket sock = new Socket("localhost", 5555);
System.out.println("Client connected to server successfully!");
OutputStream os = sock.getOutputStream();
File input = new File(System.getProperty("user.home")+"/Documents/clip0025.avi");
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(input);
byte[] data = new byte[1024];
int len=0;
int tot=0;
int perc=0;
while((len=fis.read(data))>0) {
os.write(data, 0, len);
os.flush();
tot+=len;
int prev = perc;
perc = getPercentage(tot, input.length());
if(perc !=prev && (perc == 10 || perc == 25 || perc == 50 || perc == 75 || perc == 98))
System.out.println("Client reporting: "+perc+"% read");
}
os.close();
fis.close();
sock.close();
try {
Thread.sleep(2000);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Client NIO initiating...");
SocketChannel sc = SocketChannel.open();
boolean connected = sc.connect(new InetSocketAddress("localhost",5555));
if(!connected)
connected = sc.finishConnect();
if(!connected)
throw(new IOException("Client failed to connect"));
System.out.println("Client channel connected");
sc.configureBlocking(false);
FileChannel fc = (FileChannel) Files.newByteChannel(input.toPath(), StandardOpenOption.READ);
ByteBuffer buff = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
len=0;
tot=0;
while((len=fc.read(buff))>=0||buff.position()>0) {
buff.flip();
sc.write(buff);
buff.compact();
tot+=len;
int prev = perc;
perc = getPercentage(tot, input.length());
if(perc !=prev && (perc == 10 || perc == 25 || perc == 50 || perc == 75 || perc == 98))
System.out.println("Client reporting: "+perc+"% read");
}
sc.close();
fc.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Additional Info:
Windows Vista (SP2) on Dell Studio XPS 435MT
1st gen i7 quad-core processor 2.67GHz
6GB RAM
64-bit architecture
Suggestions
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and long
more efficient.http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2010/07/java-nio-is-faster-than-java-io-for.html
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