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JNA
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FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final
As far as I understand it, with JNA, all calls into C code go through libffi: https://github.com/java-native-access/jna/blob/master/www/Fu...
This means that every call sets up some libffi data structures and libffi uses this information to perform the native call. Likewise in the other direction for return values. With JNI (and Panama), Hotspot can directly emit the argument/return code a the call, not too dissimilar from what a C or C++ compiler would do. There is still some overhead from maintaining JVM invariants. For example, I think a thread blocked in an FFI call can still participate in a safepoint. But that applies to JNI as well.
- Projetos em Java -- Por que você ou sua equipe escolheram a linguagem Java?
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Are there any Non-Mobile Kotlin Native libraries wrapping C libraries like libhidapi/opengl?
If you were prepared to go to the JVM you might try JNA. https://github.com/java-native-access/jna
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How to create fundamental libraries for my language?
Other good example, but for Java platform is JNA library. Do not mix it with Java's JNI, which is a bad example of how it could be done.
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Rust vs Java for simple small GUI apps
In case you haven't used it (assuming that you already know about JNI, for comparison) - https://github.com/java-native-access/jna is about as easy as it gets for native interop. Also, as mentioned in another comment, with the Java FFM (Foreign Function and Memory) API already in preview mode, pretty soon, there will be no external dependencies at all, and Java should be able to interop with any language that can talk to C.
- Kotlin/Native
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Does Java 18 finally have a better alternative to JNI?
The complexity of JNI has given rise to some community-driven libraries that make it simpler to do FFI in Java. Java Native Access (JNA) is one of them. It's built on top of JNI and at least makes FFI easier to use, especially as it removes the need to write any C binding code manually and reduces the chances of memory safety issues. Still, it has some of the disadvantages of being JNI-based and is slightly slower than JNI in many cases. However, JNA is widely used and battle-tested, so definitely a better option than using JNI directly.
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JEP 419: Foreign Function and Memory API
This is about calling into any native operating system APIs, as long as they are callable via C or C++ (which these days means "all" operating system APIs).
JNI is somewhat harder to use, because you need custom glue on both sides of the border: Some custom classes in Java and some custom code on the C (and C++) side.
This proposal would remove the need for the glue on the C side and would allow a pure java solution.
Something like this has existed in third-party form for a while as JNA (https://github.com/java-native-access/jna), but now it's going to be built into the JRE itself (if the proposal passes through review)
- How run ToS on MacOSX as a java command?
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Choosing Java as your language for a Machine Learning project
I use JNA https://github.com/java-native-access/jna , as you can write the entire interface in Java faster as well as easier without the need of messing with the complexities of JNI.
jmh
- Experimenting with GC-less (heap-less) Java
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Any library you would like to recommend to others as it helps you a lot? For me, mapstruct is one of them. Hopefully I would hear some other nice libraries I never try.
JMH for benchmarks
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Scala collections benchmark - revisited
I would recommend using JMH instead.
- What are some advantages to Java devs learning assembly?
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Is calling a method with reflection slower than calling a method normally? If so, by how much?
Reflection is probably very roughly between 10 and 1000 times slower. Why don't you measure it yourself using JMH?
- I benchmarked kotlin rust and go. The results will shock you , or not.
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Need help navigating the Java ecosystem (coming from C++)
Aleksey Shipilev is another such leader, whom is especially knowledgeable about the internals of the JVM. His writings are invaluable. He is (was) the lead of the Java microbenchmark framework (JMH} which is how one would write small performance experiments in Java, and learn what really makes a difference or now.
- Are Long better than Integer as keys for a Map?
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Threads vs Coroutines - ParallelMap Performance
In the last episode we implemented a parallelMap operation using streams, raw threads, a threadpool with futures, and coroutines. At first glance the raw threads was quickest, followed by futures, coroutines and then streams. In this, part 56 of an exploration of where a Test Driven Development implementation of the Gilded Rose stock control system might take us in Kotlin, we investigate the performance of the different functions further, in particular digging down into why coroutines seem to be slow and finding a way to speed them up. We also find a way to use a particular ForkJoinPool to run the streams code, making it as fast as the others (bar the raw threads). Frankly we only use very rough benchmarks here, with no statistical testing except 'it looks like'. That's OK for gross differences, but is highly suspect when deciding which of two similarly performant approaches is faster. For that check out JMH and you could watch my video from KotlinConf 2017
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Just another way to run JMH benchmark with Eclipse
A few months ago, we started to use JMH in our project to test and find performance issues. The tool provides multiple modes and profilers, and we found this useful for our purposes.
What are some alternatives?
JNR - Java Abstracted Foreign Function Layer
async-profiler - Sampling CPU and HEAP profiler for Java featuring AsyncGetCallTrace + perf_events [Moved to: https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler]
JavaCPP - The missing bridge between Java and native C++
opentelemetry-java-instrumentation - OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation and instrumentation libraries for Java
SWIG - SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.
OpenJ9 - Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.
panama-foreign - https://openjdk.org/projects/panama
async-profiler - Sampling CPU and HEAP profiler for Java featuring AsyncGetCallTrace + perf_events
rust-bindgen - Automatically generates Rust FFI bindings to C (and some C++) libraries.
go - The Go programming language
Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
Arthas - Alibaba Java Diagnostic Tool Arthas/Alibaba Java诊断利器Arthas