Much of what there is to learn about programming with Java threads hasn’t changed dramatically over the evolution of the Java platform, but it has changed incrementally. In this Java threads primer, ...

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The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s Executor ...

BERKELEY, Calif. &#151 Is multithreading better than multi-core? Is multi-core better than multithreading? The fact is that the best vehicle for a given application might have one, the other or both.