JavaScript performance degraded after moving to Java 8
Issue
- We moved to java 8 and see notably slower performance. Thread dumps show large amounts of processing time in nashorn, for example:
java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2583)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:2068)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context$ContextCodeInstaller$1.run(Context.java:213)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context$ContextCodeInstaller$1.run(Context.java:208)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context$ContextCodeInstaller.initialize(Context.java:208)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.codegen.CompilationPhase$14.transform(CompilationPhase.java:568)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.codegen.CompilationPhase.apply(CompilationPhase.java:716)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.codegen.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:620)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context.compile(Context.java:1316)
- locked <0x00000007511175c0> (a jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context.compileScript(Context.java:1248)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.Context.compileScript(Context.java:629)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.compileImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:532)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.compileImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:521)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.evalImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:399)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.eval(NashornScriptEngine.java:155)
at javax.script.AbstractScriptEngine.eval(AbstractScriptEngine.java:264)
Environment
- Java 8
- Nashorn Java Script Engine
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.x
- 7.x
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