Package org.agilewiki.jactor.events

The events package supports the dispatching of one-way messages (events).

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
EventDestination<E>	An EventDestination receives an event from objects operating on a different thread.
EventDispatcher<E>	An EventDispatcher processes events on another thread.
EventProcessor<E>	An ActiveEventProcessor processes events and receives notifications that there are events to be processed.
EventQueue<E>	An EventQueue receives events, queues them, and then processes them on another thread.

Class Summary

Class	Description
JAEventQueue<E>	An JAEventQueue receives messages, queues them, and then processes them on another thread.

Package org.agilewiki.jactor.events Description

The events package supports the dispatching of one-way messages (events).

A simple echo test takes 123 nanoseconds to send a message when running with a single thread and 252 nanoseconds when running with multiple threads.

A dual echo test takes 113 nanoseconds to send a message when running with a single thread, 210 nanoseconds when running with 2 threads, 223 nanoseconds when running with 4 threads and 225 nanoseconds when running with 8 threads.

Tests were done on an Intel Core i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz, which has 4 hardware threads. The times reported were best run in 5.