Understanding Java threads – read the whole series Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables Part 2: Thread synchronization Part 3: Thread scheduling, wait/notify, and thread interruption Part 4 ...

Understanding threads, locks, monitors and more in Java bytecode All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine.

Developers can also use a managed code environment, like the Java Virtual Machine, which allows an application to have multiple threads of execution running concurrently.

As a result, any single thread of execution would run faster on a speedy single-core CPU than it would on a slower core of a multicore CPU. The seemingly obvious answer is to split up the task into ...