Clojurians Log v2

We use duckdb at work, the same issue: the jar holds binaries for all architectures. We made our own internal package which keeps only linux/arch64

btw: sqilte-jdbc is only 13 megs or something

DuckDB does compression on DB file though. For example, stats for grumpy.websites weight 600 MB in DuckDB and 3 GB in SQLite. By paying more upfront, you are actually saving in the long run! Also queries are way more efficient in DuckDB. Didn’t really had a choice.

Hi, Niki! Thanks for sharing this. My jar is increased from 31M up to 108M. Statistics is a heavy thing! 🤣

that's duckdb

I manually removed binaries for windows and macosx from ubejar and now it is 49M.

Now that I think about it I don't like it too but… duckdb is really good at what it does

pretend it's a very compact electron app :)

i have a new “ordered collections” library i hope you’ll also look at. just waiting on approval from mgmt to release its glacial

that performance increase is incredible

39ns is no joke. Great work

🎉

Uh oh. Your optimization work is stellar, but your benchmarking approach is unfortunately invalid. You MUST use a proper benchmarking framework like JMH for microoptimizations like this one. You MUST consume computation results, otherwise you may just be reading DCE noise. I'm pretty sure you will still come up ahead when you redo the benchmarks, but it's still important to do. You can start with Criterium, at least.

i like criterium and use it a lot. i am not sure how to publish benchmarks correctly (its all bs at some level) my goal was to just give a sense of the improvements. but i’m definitely open to increasing the rigor of the benchmarks if you want to open a new PR?

I don't mean that you have to include all the quartiles and stdevs from Criterium/JMH, it's fluff, average is fine. I mean that you can't dotimes an operation that takes 40ns to run without somehow consuming the output and trust the resulting number. Both Criterium and JMH do that (consume the output and thus prevent dead code elimination). 40ns may become 100ns when measured properly, so you can't get the sense of improvement in this way.

thats a reasonable objection

im not sure i can address it immediately. but my feeling is that we’re in the ballpark. i’m very happy to work with you on improving the benchmark (and who knows, maybe overall performance)

Again, I'm sure that re-benchmarking will demonstrate that you still achieved significant improvement, but given how much effort you already put into this, and that you have a dedicated benchmarking scripts/docs, it is a waste to have the "wrong" methodology there.

You could at least double-check with Criterium that it gives you the same ballpark timings as your dotimes scripts. If it does, then at least the results are correct, even if the measuring approach isn't.

make a PR?

y thats fair

Sometime in next life, maybe, sorry 😅 Swamped

lol i get it. but i appreciatye this feedback

i will address this. you’re right. gah. but it will have to wait until the next release / my next vacation lol 🫤

That's why I never get invited to parties

that said. my measuring approach was consistent across all libraries

@alexyakushev If you host a party, I'll definitely come 🥳

so, in relative terms, might be reasonable

lol youre invited my friend you just need to talk me into hosting one

I have some examples of what can go wrong here: https://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/using-jmh-with-clojure-part1/

oh wow thanks for this link

gold

off topic, but dunno where to go with it: @alexyakushev awesome writeup. I'm curious if you found any problems with jmh-clojure, or if you just found it unintuitive/unwieldy?

Excellent question. I've encountered jmh-clojure back in those days and experimented with it for a little bit. While it indeed seems like a thought-out project with very solid engineering behind it (its author also developed https://github.com/jgpc42/insn), I couldn't immediately build a mental picture of what's going on there, and thus I didn't trust my results I obtained with it. Micro/nano-benchmarking is such a sensitive act that you'd want to understand what you are doing because it is so easy to get wrong results. I keep jmh-clojure in the back of my mind to return to it someday and properly figure it out and add to my toolset, but I haven't yet in these 7 years I've known about it 😅.

Welp, there goes my weekend 🤷

yeah my hand-wavy assumption is that it gens classes with the proper annotations and runs JMH, but, yeah, if I were staking my career on it, I would need more info 😄

@joe.lane let me know what you find.

This is the same reason why I gave up on home-grown attempts to drive JMH from the REPL. I just feel better knowing that I'm launching JMH as a standalone process, like as Shipilev intended, and not injecting entropy into measurements.

As Shipilev Intended™

oh god now i need to google shipilev i felt so good about this release earlier

This topic is a certified org.openjdk.jmh.infra.Blackhole, enjoy your trip!

@danlentz I pray you actually don't, in your case I'm 99.9% sure Criterium will be enough to verify that your dotimes measurements are in fact fine.

I honestly cannot claim that I enjoyed my dive into jmh either. But what's done is done.

yeah criterium is almost certainly enough for a single fn call

But JMH is a must when you do disassembly diving, case in point: https://clojure-goes-fast.com/blog/performance-tidbit-instanceof/

yeah I'm not actually sure it was necessary in my case, but I wanted to see the impact of threading contention on certain operations. not sure whether that's in criterium's wheelhouse, but I saw other resilience libs setting up jmh harnesses, so that's what I went with.

https://github.com/potetm/fusebox/blob/c9172629538bd982e5e043a864065c3839afb0b0/dev/dev/jmh.clj#L131

Data-driven configuration that jmh-clojure offers is heaps more pleasant than JMH's annotation vomit, for sure.

yeah I'ma just cross my fingers that Joe comes back with the all clear on Monday

I started this in 2013 as an exercise to learn Clojure … and it continues to be.

I've always had a project on my personal backlog to store jmh-clojure's datastructures in Datomic to create a performance testing and regression prevention tool. Always just out of reach...