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LMAX-Exchange/disruptor

This is the Disruptor library, a high-performance, lock-free, thread-safe data structure for inter-thread communication. It provides a ring buffer and a DSL-style API to define event processing pipelines, supporting single and multi-producer/consumer topologies with features like batch processing and exception handling. The codebase includes extensive performance benchmarks and stress tests to validate concurrency primitives and throughput across various configurations.

50.7

Adequate · 1 August 2026

12k

lines of production code

Java

primary language

2

bus factor · 83 authors in all

3

measurements over time

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How it got here

2012 · Modernization and batch processing support

The project underwent a significant modernization by migrating to a Gradle build system and upgrading to JUnit 5, while simultaneously introducing new features for batch event processing and a DSL-style configuration API. This period focused on improving throughput capabilities and test coverage, supported by updated dependencies and performance benchmarking utilities.

12 changes

2013 · Performance testing infrastructure

The period focused on expanding and standardizing the Disruptor's performance test suite. New tests were added to cover raw, sequenced, queue-based, and off-heap scenarios, while the test infrastructure was refactored to support batch metrics and improved reporting.

7 changes

2020–2021 · Benchmarking and example expansion

This period focused on enhancing the Disruptor library's testability and usability by introducing JMH benchmarks for performance analysis and JCStress tests for concurrency correctness. Additionally, the codebase was expanded with comprehensive example code and a Java module descriptor to support modern development practices.

8 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 1 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit c871ca4982 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.18. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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