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A large-scale study on the usage of Java's concurrent programming constructs
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DOI：10.1016/j.jss.2015.04.064.png)
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In both academia and industry, there is a strong belief that multicore technology will radically change the way software is built. However, little is known about the current state of use of concurrent programming constructs. In this work we present an empirical work aimed at studying the usage of concurrent programming constructs of 2227 real world, stable and mature Java projects from SourceForge. We have studied the usage of concurrent techniques in the most recent versions of these applications and also how usage has evolved along time. The main findings of our study are: (I) More than 75% of the latest versions of the projects either explicitly create threads or employ some concurrency control mechanism. (II) More than half of these projects exhibit at least 47 synchronized methods and 3 implementations of the Runnable interface per 100,000 LoC, which means that not only concurrent programming constructs are used often but they are also employed intensively. (III) The adoption of the jave.util.concurrent library is only moderate (approximately 23% of the concurrent projects employ it). (IV) Efficient and thread-safe data structures, such as ConcurrentHashMap, are not yet widely used, despite the fact that they present numerous advantages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Java
Concurrency
Software evolution
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