Chapter 10 ▪ Concurrent Programming
Java was one of the first mainstream programming languages with built-in support for concurrent programming. Early Java programmers were enthusiastic about how easy it was to load images in background threads or implement a web server that serves multiple requests concurrently. At the time, the focus was on keeping a processor busy while some tasks spend their time waiting for the network. Nowadays, most computers have multiple processors or cores, and programmers worry about keeping them all busy.
In this chapter, you will learn how to divide computations into concurrent tasks and how to execute them safely. My focus is on the needs of application programmers, not system programmers who write web servers ...
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