How can you make idle processors pick up java work?

[qwertmonkey]

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How slow is the NL processing? ~
Does it make any sense to read lines in one thread and pass each off

to one of the iPrx-1 other threads that might run on separate processors?
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I don't think this would make sense. All sentences are short and all I
need to do is basically scan them and use look-up tables to do some tinkering
with the code points. The scheduling of threads and constant context switching
will most probably make things slower
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OK this is the piece of the code I am trying to optimize and the results
I get, using a large enough file with sentences:
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http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html
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http://corpora.uni-leipzig.de/downloads/deu_news_2008_10M-text.tar.gz
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inside of the tar ball there is a file with just sentences:
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$ ls -l deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 knoppix knoppix 1235804164 May 28 2011
deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt

$ md5sum -b deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
23041587b6414d1a1a56c9c389d3c18f *deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt

$ wc -l deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
10000000 deu_news_2008_10M-sentences.txt
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Again, do you know of any faster way to go about reading the sentences of
such large files and getting their code points?
lbrtchx
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import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;

// __
public class NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test{
private static final String aNWLn = System.getProperty("line.separator");
// __
public static void main(String[] aArgs){

if((aArgs != null) && (aArgs.length == 1)){
long lTm00 = System.currentTimeMillis();
long lLns = 0;
int iTtlRdKdPnts = 0;
BufferedReader BfR = null;
Path IFlPth = FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(aArgs[0]);
long lIFlL = IFlPth.toFile().length();
int iKdPnt, iSxL;

StringBuilder aBldr = new StringBuilder(1024);
// __
try{
BfR = Files.newBufferedReader(IFlPth, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
String aSx = BfR.readLine();
while(aSx != null){
iSxL = aSx.length();
if(iSxL > 0){
for(int i = 0; (i < iSxL); ++i){
iKdPnt = aSx.codePointAt(i); ++iTtlRdKdPnts;
aBldr.appendCodePoint(iKdPnt);
}
// __
aBldr.delete(0, aBldr.length());
}// (iSxL > 0)
++lLns;
aSx = BfR.readLine();
}// (aSx != null)

BfR.close();
// __
System.err.println("// __ reading |" + lIFlL + "| bytes long text file
with |" + lLns + "| lines took |" + (System.currentTimeMillis() - lTm00) +
"| (ms)");
System.err.println("// __ iTtlRdKdPnts: |" + iTtlRdKdPnts + "|");
}catch(IOException IOX) { IOX.printStackTrace(System.err); }
}
else{ System.err.println("// __ usage:" + aNWLn + aNWLn +
" java NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test \"<text file>\"" + aNWLn); }
}
}

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$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_02-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)
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$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4051236 719224 3332012 0 22008 408260
-/+ buffers/cache: 288956 3762280
Swap: 3038424 0 3038424
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$ javac -encoding utf8 NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test.java
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$ date; java -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -Xincgc -Dfile.encoding=utf8
NIO2_newBufferedReader02Test /media/sdb1/tmp/eng_news_2006_10M-sentences.txt;
date;
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Tue Jul 31 02:05:04 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|41922| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:05:46 UTC 2012
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Tue Jul 31 02:05:51 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|27299| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:06:19 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:06:22 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|28180| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:06:50 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:26:43 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|35388| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:27:18 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:27:21 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|38155| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:28:00 UTC 2012
~
Tue Jul 31 02:30:40 UTC 2012
// __ reading |1280939143| bytes long text file with |10000000| lines took
|41099| (ms)
Tue Jul 31 02:31:21 UTC 2012

 

[Joerg Meier]

You might have more luck reading the whole file at once and then looping
through it once it's read. IO is generally slow, and COULD be your bottle
neck. But really, your first step should be using a profiler so you don't
have to guess as to what's slow.

Liebe Gruesse,
Joerg

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

I don't think this would make sense. All sentences are short and all I
need to do is basically scan them and use look-up tables to do some tinkering
with the code points. The scheduling of threads and constant context switching
will most probably make things slower

In this case, the limiting factor is probably not going to be your CPU
but your disk drive.