Tests to confirm symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability of processes and Java threads on Sun hardware have revealed a serious problem in Sun's JDK 1.1.7 that can dramatically reduce the ...

Now Java developers are abuzz about virtual threads, a feature introduced in Java 21. Java virtual threads are much lighter and more efficient than traditional operating system threads, and excel at ...

Java could gain a capability for sharing immutable data across threads, based on a plan now under consideration in the OpenJDK realm. An OpenJDK proposal for extent-local variables, currently an ...

Thread dump is a snapshot of all the threads that were executing at a moment in time. It shows the stack trace of each thread, the locks they have obtained, locks on which they are waiting, their ...

JDK 21's virtual threads are a major leap forward for Java's concurrency model. Previously, Java relied on OS threads, which were resource-heavy, limiting how many threads could run concurrently.