23.16 Wrap-Up
In this chapter, we presented Java’s concurrency capabilities for enhancing application performance on multi-core systems. You learned the differences between concurrent and parallel execution. We discussed that Java makes concurrency available to you through multithreading. You also learned that the JVM itself creates threads to run a program, and that it also can create threads to perform housekeeping tasks such as garbage collection.
We discussed the life cycle of a thread and the states that a thread may occupy during its lifetime. Next, we presented the interface Runnable, which is used to specify a task that can execute concurrently with other tasks. This interface’s run method is invoked by the thread executing the task. ...
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