Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+

From: Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>
To: Daniel Migowski <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, List <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+
Date: 2017-04-03 18:33:11
Message-ID: 5989a0cc-8318-28a7-9389-b284f42f671c@8kdata.com
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On 03/04/17 20:24, Daniel Migowski wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> in the name of performance, and that should be the main aspect for a
> database driver:
>
> ·Don’t use lambdas! They are useful in a GUI where a few milliseconds
> are no problem, but shouldn’t IMHO be used on the server. Inner
> classes are slower to load but execute faster!
>
> ·Don’t use streams when you can simply iterate over an array or a
> list. Unnecessary object creating just for the sake of readable code?
> Don’t do this in a database driver either!
>
> ·Optionals: Why create objects for nothing? I’d rather have an
> if-check for null instead garbage on the heap.
>

Thank you for your thoughts.

I have heard these objections sometimes. I more or less agree with
some of them. But don't want to fall into premature optimization: do you
have some numbers to back these claims? If there would be performance
drawbacks for using these, are they comparable to other performance hits
in the driver?

Regards,

Álvaro

> Just my thoughts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Migowski
>
> *Von:*pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] *Im Auftrag von *Álvaro
> Hernández Tortosa
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 3. April 2017 13:36
> *An:* Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
> *Cc:* John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>; List
> <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [JDBC] RFC: Make new versions of pgjdbc Java8+
>
> On 03/04/17 13:05, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> On 2 April 2017 at 19:03, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht(at)8kdata(dot)com
> <mailto:aht(at)8kdata(dot)com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 03/04/17 00:56, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> On 4/2/2017 3:40 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa wrote:
>
> - Java 6 EOLed 2/2013.
> - Java 7 EOLed 4/2015.
> - Java 8 was released 3 years ago, and brought
> significant improvements.
> - Java 9 will be (may be) released this year.
>
>
> isn't there a significant lag in version support by things
> like web services (j2ee, etc, as embedded in things like
> IBM WebSphere) ? j2ee 8 isn't even out yet. Pretty sure
> a whole lot of that space is still stuck back in Java 6 land.
>
>
> Those are not related things. You can perfectly run J2EE 6
> servers with Java 8 (and indeed, it is beneficial).
>
>
> Álvaro
>
> --
>
> Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
>
>
> -----------
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>
> Alvaro,
>
> So why do you want to write in java 8 ?
>
>
>
> Not a comprehensive or ordered list, but a few reasons:
>
> - JDK comes with Base64 and cryptographic functions like PBKDF2 that
> are needed for SCRAM. In Java6 you either implement yourself or pull
> external dependencies.
>
> - You can write conciser code (which improves significantly readability):
> * Lambas: anonymous classes. Callback-heavy code turns becomes
> readable.
> * Streams: unnecessary for loops and other goodies.
> * Optional: unnecessary ifs.
> * Since Java7: try-with-resources, 10_000 vs 10000 etc.
>
> - Reading Javadoc doesn't hurt my eyes ^_^
>
> - Time API, CompletableFuture.
>
> - Default and static methods in interfaces!
>
>
> Álvaro
>
>
> --
> Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
> -----------
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