As the number of cores continue to increase, it becomes harder and harder to write software that makes effective use of those cores. There are two challenges here.
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The first challenge is to avoid race conditions. This is usually quite difficult as race conditions are often quite subtle, hard to spot and impossible to test for.
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The second challenge is to write code that uses multiple threads that runs faster than single-threaded code in any but the simplest of cases. Locks cause context switches that result in memory caches having to be reloaded. And any data passed between threads similarly must be reloaded into the new thread's memory cache.
JActor2 is lock-free code that extends the actor programming paradigm for increased effectiveness and ease of use. And its API makes it easy to confirm that the application code is indeed free of race conditions.
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- Compatible with Maven 3.
- License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0