------- Additional Comments From mark at klomp dot org 2005-08-23 14:31 ------- Subject: Re: Sun's JIT faster than gcc for Random.nextDouble
It looks like the problem is that we don't remove the synchronization for nextDouble() even though the test case is single-threaded. qprof: /tmp/x: 299 samples, 299 counts X::main(JArray<java::lang::String*>*):X.java:8 5 ( 2%) libc.so.6(memchr) 1 ( 0%) libgcj.so.6 2 ( 1%) libgcj.so.6(_Jv_MonitorEnter) 110 ( 37%) libgcj.so.6(_Jv_MonitorExit) 108 ( 36%) libgcj.so.6(_ZN4java4util6Random4nextEi) 27 ( 9%) libgcj.so.6(_ZN4java4util6Random10nextDoubleEv) 46 ( 15%) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23283