Do any JVM’s JIT compilers generate code that uses vectorized floating point instructions?

So, basically, you want your code to run faster. JNI is the answer. I know you said it didn’t work for you, but let me show you that you are wrong.

Here’s Dot.java:

import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
import org.bytedeco.javacpp.*;
import org.bytedeco.javacpp.annotation.*;

@Platform(include = "Dot.h", compiler = "fastfpu")
public class Dot {
    static { Loader.load(); }

    static float[] a = new float[50], b = new float[50];
    static float dot() {
        float sum = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
            sum += a[i]*b[i];
        }
        return sum;
    }
    static native @MemberGetter FloatPointer ac();
    static native @MemberGetter FloatPointer bc();
    static native @NoException float dotc();

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FloatBuffer ab = ac().capacity(50).asBuffer();
        FloatBuffer bb = bc().capacity(50).asBuffer();

        for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
            a[i%50] = b[i%50] = dot();
            float sum = dotc();
            ab.put(i%50, sum);
            bb.put(i%50, sum);
        }
        long t1 = System.nanoTime();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
            a[i%50] = b[i%50] = dot();
        }
        long t2 = System.nanoTime();
        for (int i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
            float sum = dotc();
            ab.put(i%50, sum);
            bb.put(i%50, sum);
        }
        long t3 = System.nanoTime();
        System.out.println("dot(): " + (t2 - t1)/10000000 + " ns");
        System.out.println("dotc(): "  + (t3 - t2)/10000000 + " ns");
    }
}

and Dot.h:

float ac[50], bc[50];

inline float dotc() {
    float sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
        sum += ac[i]*bc[i];
    }
    return sum;
}

We can compile and run that with JavaCPP using this command:

$ java -jar javacpp.jar Dot.java -exec

With an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, Fedora 30, GCC 9.1.1, and OpenJDK 8 or 11, I get this kind of output:

dot(): 39 ns
dotc(): 16 ns

Or roughly 2.4 times faster. We need to use direct NIO buffers instead of arrays, but HotSpot can access direct NIO buffers as fast as arrays. On the other hand, manually unrolling the loop does not provide a measurable boost in performance, in this case.