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The methods object.wait(), object.notify() and object.notifyAll() are meant to be used in a very specific way. (see http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/java/5409/wait-notify#t=20160811161648303307 ) The "Lost Notification" problem One common beginner mistake is to unconditionally cal...

The javadoc for the Thread class shows two ways to define and use a thread: Using a custom thread class: class PrimeThread extends Thread { long minPrime; PrimeThread(long minPrime) { this.minPrime = minPrime; } public void run() { // compute primes l...

A lot of people who are new to multi-threading think that using threads automatically make an application go faster. In fact, it is a lot more complicated than that. But one thing that we can state with certainty is that for any computer there is a limit on the number of threads that can be run at ...

Consider these two micro-benchmarks: The first benchmark simply creates, starts and joins threads. The thread's Runnable does no work. public class ThreadTest { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { while (true) { long start = System.nanoTime(); ...

Consider this example: public class ThreadTest implements Runnable { private boolean stop = false; public void run() { long counter = 0; while (!stop) { counter = counter + 1; } System.out.println("Counted " + counter);...