Splitting a large task into smaller parallel jobs
CPUs are not getting any faster, so manufacturers are adding more cores to the processors. That means that single-threaded applications are not able to leverage the "parallelization" offered by a multi-core processor. But how to put those cores to work?
The concept of parallelization is based on the assumption that often large problems can be divided into smaller ones, which are solved "in parallel". The smaller task execution can be spread through several cores to complete the main task faster.
Concurrent programming is not easy, mostly because of synchronization issues and the pitfalls of shared data. Historically Java has offered excellent support for multi-threaded programming, partially shielding ...
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