Why parallelism?
It may be a subject of interest to learn why parallelism is an important trend in the Java community. This is due to the current microprocessors being developed and promoted by top companies, such as Intel, IBM, and AMD. These processors are able to process multiple threads and have multiple physical cores as well. The availability of 64-bit JVMs now allows us to create and run huge heaps that were never possible on 32-bit machines. There are several advantages of using parallelism in Java since it has been available in Java 5 and the later versions.
Garbage problem is often created by a number of threads. A serial garbage collection removes the effect of one thread at a time that may create a strong bottleneck in a program ...
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