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Java SecureRandom on SPARC T4 much slower than on x86/Linux

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    • sparc_64
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        Attached is a simple Java test code that exposes the problem. The code
        executes N time the method generateRandomString in sequence and then in
        parallel (50 threads)

        The code uses the SecureRandom API (secureRandom.nextBytes(destByte))

        Command line is:
        java -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom TestSecureRandom 1000000

        Here are the runtime results (lower the better) they get on a Red Hat x86
        system vs. on a T4-2 (I did the test on an internal T4-2 system):

        Number of Calls x86 Sequence x86 Parallel T4 Seq T4 Para
        1000000 1035 ms 2026 ms 5975 ms 9015 ms
        2000000 1966 ms 3020 ms 11191 ms 17016 ms
        3000000 2935 ms 5008 ms 16215 ms 26017 ms

        We are constantly at least 5x slower on the T4 than on the x86 system.

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                robm Robert Mckenna
                asaha Abhijit Saha
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