Java 17 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

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J. Juneau, L. ManelliJava 17 Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7963-2_10

10. Concurrency

Josh Juneau¹   and Luciano Manelli²

(1)

Hinckley, IL, USA

(2)

TARANTO, Taranto, Italy

 

Concurrency is the ability of a program to execute different (or the same) instructions at the same time. A concurrent program can be split up and run on multiple CPUs. By making concurrent programs, you take advantage of today’s multicore CPUs. You can even see the benefit on single-core CPUs that are I/O intensive. Concurrency is one of the toughest topics to handle in modern computer programming; understanding concurrency requires the capacity of thinking abstractly, and debugging ...