Context: The performance assessment of complex software systems is not a trivial task since
it depends on the design, code, and execution environment. All these factors may affect the …

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 …

The JavaScript ecosystem provides equivalent synchronous and asynchronous Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for many commonly used I/O operations. Synchronous APIs …

JavaScript is a single-threaded programming language, so asynchronous programming is
practiced out of necessity to ensure that applications remain responsive in the presence of …

To address the inherent limitations of Future in asynchronous programming frameworks,
JDK 1.8 introduced the CompletableFuture class, which features approximately 50 different …

Asynchronous programming has gained in importance, not only due to hardware
developments like multi-core processors, but also due to pervasive asynchronicity in client …

JavaScript is arguably today's most popular programming language, and it is ubiquitous as
the “language of the web”. It is dynamically typed, meaning that programmers do not write …

Parallel programming is hard. The industry leaders hope to convert the hard problem of
using parallelism into the easier problem of using a parallel library. Yet, we know little about …

Industry leaders provide concurrent libraries because asynchronous & parallel programming
are increasingly in demand: responsiveness, scalability, and high-throughput are key …

Writing parallel programs is hard, especially for inexperienced programmers. Parallel
language features are still being added on a regular basis to most modern object-oriented …