[weld-dev] A significantly negative article on Weld

[Stuart Douglas]

I just ran some very quick and dirty profiling with the latest Jbossas and the results are as follows:


Beans	Startup Time	Startup (WELDX)	Memory Usage	Mem Usage(no beans.xml)
No Deployment	17			135
20	20	22	149	
500	24	26	178	
2000	35	43	265	
5000	87	104	440	210


So jboss uses 135Mb normally, and 210Mb when a war with 5000 classes is deployed that does not have beans.xml. When you add weld to the mix the memory usage jumps by 230Mb to 440Mb.

According to yjp WeldClassImpl (and it's retained WeldMethod/Field etc) is responsible for 120Mb of this. Other major culprits seem to be TypeSafeObserverResolver at 24Mb (as it is caching ProcessAnnotatedType<Bean*> * 5000) and TypeSafeDecoratorResolver at 13Mb. Not much else stands out.

The beans used where quite simple (1 injection point, 7 fields, 6 methods), no normal scoped beans, no interceptors, not decorators. Weldx does have a notable effect on startup time, which I will also investigate.

I don't think it will be to hard to significantly reduce this. Reducing the number of HashMap's in WeldClassImpl (and replacing some with ImmutableArraySet) should give a significant gain, and clearing the TypeSafeObserverResolver and TypeSafeDecoratorResolver after startup should also save around 40Mb. I'll try and do some work this week and see how much I can get this down.

Stuart

On 10/11/2010, at 8:48 AM, Pete Muir wrote:

> I'm about to post a blog about this.
> 
> On 9 Nov 2010, at 21:43, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> 
>> Are these points valid?
>> 
>> If so, are we aware of them? Just trying to raise awareness to what people are saying out in the world. I have noticed a relatively high memory footprint in Seam Forge, using Weld SE.
>> 
>> http://www.dzone.com/links/r/cdi_a_major_risk_factor_in_java_ee_6.html
>> 
>> Is there anything we can address here and attempt to demystify this blog?
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