Disruptor is a
library
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for the
Java
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programming language that provides a
concurrent ring buffer data structure of the same name, developed at
LMAX Exchange
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. It is designed to provide a low-latency, high-throughput
work queue in asynchronous event processing architectures. It ensures that any data is owned by only one thread for write access, therefore reducing write contention compared to other structures.
The library is used for asynchronous
logging in the popular Java software library
Log4j
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.
See also
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Concurrent data structure
In computer science, a concurrent data structure is a
particular way of storing and organizing data for access by
multiple computing threads (or processes) on a computer.
Historically, such data structures were used on uniprocessor
machines w ...
References
External links
LMAX Disruptor: High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library
Java (programming language) libraries
Concurrent algorithms
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