RE: [ljc] Performance Tuning of a large Method
| From: | Stephen S. |
| Sent on: | Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 5:58 PM |
Sounds like fun.
Here are a few points worth considering:
- Why is the method synchronised? What state is shared and potentially mutating?
- What size are the Collections? Are the data structures and algorithms efficient?
- What processing is actually taking place? Is it all actually required?
- Can the processing be farmed out to helper object(s), reducing the number of components that the method needs to know about?
- Are the Collections just POJOs or do they represent something that is being fetched from an database?
Once you understand each section you can do your colleagues a favour by splitting it out into smaller methods with meaningful intention-revealing names.
Given that this is a 185 line method with significant cyclomatic complexity I won't assume that you have fantastic test coverage, so good luck.
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Subject: [ljc] Performance Tuning of a large Method
Date: Tue, 23 Oct[masked]:34:38 -0400
Good morning,
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I'm working on a rather high trafficked ecommerce platform at the moment where I seem to having some performance issues.
I've hooked visualJVM up to the application to find that one particular method is taking over 40 seconds to complete when load is high. Looking at the method, I see it's a 185 line copy and paste job from a legacy codebase that has some rather verbose conditionals and lots of interactions with Collections.
I know I haven't given enough information for anyone to really help me but I'm curious as to how you would generally go about dealing with a 185 line, synchronised java method that was lifted out of a legacy codebase. Where am I supposed to begin when refactoring this mess?
Craig
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