I have a big problem while evaluate my java code. To simplify the problem I wrote the following code which produce the same curious behavior. Important is the method run() and given double value rate. For my runtime test (in the main method) I set the rate to 0.5 one times and 1.0 the other time. With the value 1.0 the if-statement will be executed in each loop iteration and with the value 0.5 the if-statement will be executed half as much. For this reason I expected longer runtime by the first case but opposite is true. Can anybody explain me this phenomenon??

The result of main:

Test mit rate = 0.5
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 25000856
Execution time was 4329 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 24999141
Execution time was 4307 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 25001582
Execution time was 4223 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 25000694
Execution time was 4328 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 25004766
Execution time was 4346 ms.
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Test mit rate = 1.0
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 50000000
Execution time was 3482 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 50000000
Execution time was 3572 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 50000000
Execution time was 3529 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 50000000
Execution time was 3479 ms.
Length: 50000000, IF executions: 50000000
Execution time was 3473 ms.

The Code

public ArrayList<Byte> list = new ArrayList<Byte>();
public final int LENGTH = 50000000;

public PerformanceTest(){
    byte[]arr = new byte[LENGTH];
    Random random = new Random();
    random.nextBytes(arr);
    for(byte b : arr)
        list.add(b);
}

public void run(double rate){

    byte b = 0;
    int count = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {

        if(getRate(rate)){
            list.set(i, b);
            count++;
        }
    }
    System.out.println("Length: " + LENGTH + ", IF executions: " + count);
}

public boolean getRate(double rate){
    return Math.random() < rate;
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
    PerformanceTest test = new PerformanceTest();

    long start, end;
    System.out.println("Test mit rate = 0.5");
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        start=System.currentTimeMillis();
        test.run(0.5);
        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println("Execution time was "+(end-start)+" ms.");

        Thread.sleep(500);
    }       
    System.out.println("=================================");
    System.out.println("Test mit rate = 1.0");      
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
        start=System.currentTimeMillis();
        test.run(1.0);
        end = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println("Execution time was "+(end-start)+" ms.");
        Thread.sleep(500);
    }   
}