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Is there any Relation between Iterator.hasNext and for-each loop



I was using JProfiler for profiling of my application, as it is a huge application so I am very aware of its performance and efficiency.








It was taking too long so I replace all Iterator.hasNext with for-each but when I am seeing in the JProfilers CPU view it is showing me Iterator.hasNext method called where I am using for-each .


Why does so? Is there any relation between these two? Here is the example code :







List<Map<String, Object>> mapList = jdbcTemplate

.queryForList(MAP.SELECT_ALL);

for (Map<String, Object> map : mapList) {

list.add(fillPreferenceMaster(preferenceMasterMap));

}




Comments

  1. Yes, the enhanced for statement uses Iterator under-the-covers for iterable collections, see Section 14.14.2 of the JLS:


    If the type of Expression is a subtype of Iterable, then let I be the type of the expression Expression.iterator(). The enhanced for statement is equivalent to a basic for statement of the form:

    for (I #i = Expression.iterator(); #i.hasNext(); ) {
    VariableModifiersopt Type Identifier = #i.next();
    Statement
    }


    Where #i is a compiler-generated identifier that is distinct from any other identifiers (compiler-generated or otherwise) that are in scope (§6.3) at the point where the enhanced for statement occurs.

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  2. The for-each loop in Java uses the underlying iterator mechanism. So to answer your question, the code is identical.

    This is most likely not a bottleneck in your code. You should identify the top 10 method hotspots using JProfiler and find out how to optimize those method calls.

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  3. The for-each statement uses the iterator to iterate over your collection. The compiler replaces your for-each with a while loop.

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