I was attempting to demonstrate to a Java novice streams and such. He said he had read that streams can be slower than for loops for primitive types. So, I set immediately to prove that wrong! What I got was a shock!
The for-loop and the serial stream run roughly the same, but the parallel stream is consistently and dramatically slower. Can someone explain why?
@Test
public void foo() throws Exception {
Random r = new Random();
IntSummaryStatistics stats = new IntSummaryStatistics();
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
for(int i = 0; i < 100000000;i++) {
stats.accept(r.nextInt() * 2);
}
System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
start = System.currentTimeMillis();
stats = r.ints(100000000).map(rn -> rn * 2).summaryStatistics();
System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
start = System.currentTimeMillis();
stats = r.ints(100000000).parallel().map(rn -> rn * 2).summaryStatistics();
System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis() - start);
}
resutls:
1067
1047
15184
