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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Concurrency explained

Concurrent processing has been around since the 1960s. In those formative years, we already had systems that permitted multiple processes to share a single processor. These systems are more clearly defined as pseudo-parallel systems because it only appeared that multiple processes were being simultaneously executed. Our computers today still operate in this manner. The difference between the 1960s and current day is that our computers can have multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, which better supports concurrency.

Concurrency and parallelism are often used as interchangeable terms. Concurrency is when multiple processes overlap, although the start and stop times could be different. Parallelism occurs when tasks start, ...
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