Performance analysis of coroutines and other concurrency techniques in Kotlin language for I/O operations
Michał Grabowiec
Lublin University of Technology (Poland)
Sebastian Wiktor
sebastian.wiktor@pollub.edu.plLublin University of Technology (Poland)
Jakub Smołka
Lublin University of Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8350-2537
Abstract
This article focuses on analyzing the performance of coroutines and other concurrent processing techniques in Kotlin language for input/output operations. For this purpose, coroutines, traditional threads, thread pool and virtual threads were put together. An appropriate application was created and test scenarios were developed. A series of tests were conducted, followed by an analysis of the obtained results. These results indicate that coroutines and thread pool exhibit the highest performance, highlighting their importance in optimizing concurrent processing in the Kotlin language.
Keywords:
Kotlin, coroutines, concurrent processingReferences
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Michał GrabowiecLublin University of Technology Poland
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