Performance Analysis of Java Object Serialization on Windows and Linux

Object serialization is the process of saving an object onto a storage medium such as a file, database or to transmit it across a network connection link in binary form. This process of serializing an object is also called deflating or marshalling an object. The opposite operation, extracting a data structure from a series of bytes, is deserialization (which is also called inflating or unmarshalling). This paper describes the performance analysis comparison between Java arithmetical operations on Windows and Linux operating system. It also evaluates the running time performance over Java object serialization on both operating systems. In this experiment, four Java operations have been developed to represent different sizes of datasets and responses. The result has shown that Java arithmetical operations were faster on Linux than Windows. However, Java object serialization makes the running time of Java operations become faster on Windows. While on Linux, Java object serialization makes the running times of Java operations become slower. Monolithic kernel in Linux and hybrid kernel in Windows were the key factors that could influence this experiment. The running time performances of Java operations are faster on monolithic kernel than hybrid kernel.