/* * Copyright 1999-2005 The Apache Software Foundation. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.log4j.performance; /** Measures the time required to make a System.currentTimeMillis() and Thread.currentThread().getName() calls. <p>On an 233Mhz NT machine (JDK 1.1.7B) the System.currentTimeMillis() call takes under half a microsecond to complete whereas the Thread.currentThread().getName() call takes about 4 micro-seconds. */ public class SystemTime { static int RUN_LENGTH = 1000000; static public void main(String[] args) { double t = systemCurrentTimeLoop(); System.out.println("Average System.currentTimeMillis() call took " + t); t = currentThreadNameloop(); System.out.println("Average Thread.currentThread().getName() call took " + t); } static double systemCurrentTimeLoop() { long before = System.currentTimeMillis(); long l; for(int i = 0; i < RUN_LENGTH; i++) { l = System.currentTimeMillis(); } return (System.currentTimeMillis() - before)*1000.0/RUN_LENGTH; } static double currentThreadNameloop() { long before = System.currentTimeMillis(); String t; for(int i = 0; i < RUN_LENGTH; i++) { t = Thread.currentThread().getName(); } return (System.currentTimeMillis() - before)*1000.0/RUN_LENGTH; } }