You can run the following with
-mx1g -XX:+UseCompressedStrings # on Java 6 update 29
-mx1800m -XX:-UseCompressedStrings # on Java 6 update 29
-mx2g # on Java 7 update 2.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
public class Main {
public static void main(String... args) throws IOException {
long start = System.nanoTime();
generateFile("lines.txt", 755 * 1024 * 1024, 189000);
List<String> lines = loadLines("lines.txt");
System.out.println("Sorting file");
Collections.sort(lines);
System.out.println("... Sorted file");
// save lines.
long time = System.nanoTime() - start;
System.out.printf("Took %.3f second to read, sort and write to a file%n", time / 1e9);
}
private static void generateFile(String fileName, int size, int lines) throws FileNotFoundException {
System.out.println("Creating file to load");
int lineSize = size / lines;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
while (sb.length() < lineSize) sb.append('-');
String padding = sb.toString();
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(fileName);
for (int i = 0; i < lines; i++) {
String text = (i + padding).substring(0, lineSize);
pw.println(text);
}
pw.close();
System.out.println("... Created file to load");
}
private static List<String> loadLines(String fileName) throws IOException {
System.out.println("Reading file");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
ret.add(line);
System.out.println("... Read file.");
return ret;
}
}
prints
Creating file to load
... Created file to load
Reading file
... Read file.
Sorting file
... Sorted file
Took 4.886 second to read, sort and write to a file
