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Listing 1: Java Benchmark Source Code

public class PerformanceTester
{
   private int amount;
   private static int NOBJECTS = 500000;

   public void addAmount (int val)
   {
           amount += val;
   }

   public int getAmount ()
   {
           return amount;
   }

   /**
    *  Benchmark driver. Creates half a million of simple account
    *  objects, adds an amount to each one, and then computes the
    *  sum of all amounts in all objects.
    *  Reports elapsed time in milliseconds and number of objects
    *  processed per millisecond.
   */
   public static void main (String[] args)
   {
           long starttime = 0;
           long endtime = 0;
           int sum = 0;

           starttime = System.currentTimeMillis();

           PerformanceTester[] ptarr = new PerformanceTester[NOBJECTS];

           for (int i = 0; i < NOBJECTS; i++)
                   ptarr[i] = new PerformanceTester();

           for (int i = 0; i < NOBJECTS; i++)
                   ptarr[i].addAmount(i);

           for (int i = 0; i < NOBJECTS; i++)
                   sum += ptarr[i].getAmount();

           endtime = System.currentTimeMillis();
           System.out.println ("Elapsed time in milliseconds for "
           + NOBJECTS + " objects: " + (endtime - starttime));
           System.out.println ("Objects per millisecond:
           " + (NOBJECTS / (endtime - starttime)));
   }
}