I'm writing some code that calls Field.set
and Field.get
many many thousands of times. Obviously this is very slow because of the reflection.
I want to see if I can improve performance using MethodHandle
in Java 7. So far here's what I have:
Instead of field.set(pojo, value)
, I'm doing:
private static final Map<Field, MethodHandle> setHandles = new HashMap<>();
MethodHandle mh = setHandles.get(field);
if (mh == null) {
mh = lookup.unreflectSetter(field);
setHandles.put(field, mh);
}
mh.invoke(pojo, value);
However, this doesn't seem to perform better than the Field.set call using reflection. Am I doing something wrong here?
I read that using invokeExact
could be faster but when I tried using that I got a java.lang.invoke.WrongMethodTypeException
.
Has anyone successfully been able to optimize repeated calls to Field.set or Field.get?
2015-06-01: Updated to reflect @JoeC's comment about another case when handles are static. Also updated to latest JMH and re-ran on modern hardware. The conclusion stays almost the same.
Please do proper benchmarking, it is arguably not that hard with JMH. Once you do that, the answer becomes obvious. It can also showcase the proper use of invokeExact
(requires target/source 1.7 to compile and run):
@Warmup(iterations = 5, time = 1, timeUnit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
@Measurement(iterations = 5, time = 1, timeUnit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
@Fork(3)
@BenchmarkMode(Mode.AverageTime)
@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS)
@State(Scope.Thread)
public class MHOpto {
private int value = 42;
private static final Field static_reflective;
private static final MethodHandle static_unreflect;
private static final MethodHandle static_mh;
private static Field reflective;
private static MethodHandle unreflect;
private static MethodHandle mh;
// We would normally use @Setup, but we need to initialize "static final" fields here...
static {
try {
reflective = MHOpto.class.getDeclaredField("value");
unreflect = MethodHandles.lookup().unreflectGetter(reflective);
mh = MethodHandles.lookup().findGetter(MHOpto.class, "value", int.class);
static_reflective = reflective;
static_unreflect = unreflect;
static_mh = mh;
} catch (IllegalAccessException | NoSuchFieldException e) {
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}
}
@Benchmark
public int plain() {
return value;
}
@Benchmark
public int dynamic_reflect() throws InvocationTargetException, IllegalAccessException {
return (int) reflective.get(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int dynamic_unreflect_invoke() throws Throwable {
return (int) unreflect.invoke(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int dynamic_unreflect_invokeExact() throws Throwable {
return (int) unreflect.invokeExact(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int dynamic_mh_invoke() throws Throwable {
return (int) mh.invoke(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int dynamic_mh_invokeExact() throws Throwable {
return (int) mh.invokeExact(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int static_reflect() throws InvocationTargetException, IllegalAccessException {
return (int) static_reflective.get(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int static_unreflect_invoke() throws Throwable {
return (int) static_unreflect.invoke(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int static_unreflect_invokeExact() throws Throwable {
return (int) static_unreflect.invokeExact(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int static_mh_invoke() throws Throwable {
return (int) static_mh.invoke(this);
}
@Benchmark
public int static_mh_invokeExact() throws Throwable {
return (int) static_mh.invokeExact(this);
}
}
On 1x4x2 i7-4790K, JDK 8u40, Linux x86_64 it yields:
Benchmark Mode Cnt Score Error Units
MHOpto.dynamic_mh_invoke avgt 25 4.393 ± 0.003 ns/op
MHOpto.dynamic_mh_invokeExact avgt 25 4.394 ± 0.007 ns/op
MHOpto.dynamic_reflect avgt 25 5.230 ± 0.020 ns/op
MHOpto.dynamic_unreflect_invoke avgt 25 4.404 ± 0.023 ns/op
MHOpto.dynamic_unreflect_invokeExact avgt 25 4.397 ± 0.014 ns/op
MHOpto.plain avgt 25 1.858 ± 0.002 ns/op
MHOpto.static_mh_invoke avgt 25 1.862 ± 0.015 ns/op
MHOpto.static_mh_invokeExact avgt 25 1.859 ± 0.002 ns/op
MHOpto.static_reflect avgt 25 4.274 ± 0.011 ns/op
MHOpto.static_unreflect_invoke avgt 25 1.859 ± 0.002 ns/op
MHOpto.static_unreflect_invokeExact avgt 25 1.858 ± 0.002 ns/op
...which suggests MH are really much faster than Reflection in this particular case (this is because the access checks against the private field is done at lookup time, and not at the invocation time). dynamic_*
cases simulate the case when the MethodHandles
and/or Fields
are not statically known, e.g. pulled from Map<String, MethodHandle>
or something like it. Conversely, static_*
cases are those where the invokers are statically known.
Notice the reflective performance is on par with MethodHandles in dynamic_*
cases, this is because reflection is heavily optimized further in JDK 8 (because really, you don't need the access check to read your own fields), so the answer may be "just" switching to JDK 8 ;)
static_*
cases are even faster, because the MethoHandles.invoke
calls are aggressively inlined. This eliminates part of the type checking in MH cases. But, in reflection cases, there are still quick checks present, and therefore, it lags behind.