Details
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Type:
Wish
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Status:
Open
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 1000
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Component/s: Runtime: Class Library
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Description
When investigating Jython performance Steve made a simple change of the hash map used in String interning from a WeakHashMap to a VM_HashMap. This gave mixed benchmark improvements from a 1% slowdown (noise?) to 3 and 4% speedups.
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Jython-performance-p12219797.html
Given this is a simple and isolated change we should investigate switching how interning is implemented as the potential 4% win on a few benchmarks is worth having.