Generating concurrent random numbers
The Java concurrency API provides a specific class to generate pseudorandom numbers in concurrent applications. It's the ThreadLocalRandom class and it's new in Java 7 version. It works as the thread's local variables. Every thread that wants to generate random numbers has a different generator, but all of them are managed from the same class, in a transparent way to the programmer. With this mechanism, you will get a better performance than using a shared Random object to generate the random numbers of all the threads.
In this recipe, you will learn how to use the ThreadLocalRandom class to generate random numbers in a concurrent application.
Getting ready
The example of this recipe has been implemented using the Eclipse IDE. If you use Eclipse or any other IDE such as NetBeans, open it and create a new Java project.
How to do it...
Follow these steps to implement the example:
- Create a class named
TaskLocalRandomand specify that it implements theRunnable...
