Jar files, kissme, Classpath, jazzlib

[John Leuner]

I peformed a simple test on the Jar file code in classpath. The test was mainly 
to check that the Classpath and jazzlib code worked correctly.

I created a jar file with 162 files, consisting of .java source and .class 
files, and also some html files and tar.gz archives.

I then wrote a java test program that extracted the files from this .jar file.

I ran this program with my JVM (kissme), using the jazzlib library. kissme does 
not have a JIT.
I also ran it with IBM's JDK 1.3 for linux, with the JIT enabled and disabled.

I used md5sum and find to verify that the extracted files were correct.

I timed the process, you can see kissme is 20 to 40 times slower (user time) or 
17 to 21 times slower (total time), I guess this is mostly because the zip 
handling code wasn't compiled natively by a JIT or a C compiler.

KISSME

kissme -classpath  kissme_test.JarTest  46.51s user 0.85s system 87% cpu 53.934 
total
kissme -classpath  kissme_test.JarTest  46.15s user 0.73s system 90% cpu 52.070 
total

IBM JDK

/usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/java -cp .. kissme_test.JarTest  1.71s user 1.02s system 
47% cpu 5.695 total
/usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/java -cp .. kissme_test.JarTest  1.56s user 0.89s system 
66% cpu 3.694 total

IBM JDK - no JIT compiler

/usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/java -cp .. kissme_test.JarTest  0.93s user 0.67s system 
66% cpu 2.412 total
/usr/local/jdk1.3/bin/java -cp .. kissme_test.JarTest  0.95s user 0.40s system 
56% cpu 2.373 total

John Leuner
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