CHAPTER 18
MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMMING
So far, we have written many programs. All of them can be termed as single threaded. For last many years, programming languages were producing single-threaded programs. Only recently, multi-threading support has appeared in programming languages. Java is providing an elegant, easy-to-use multi-threading environment to programmers.
Let us first understand what a thread is.
18.1 What are Threads?
When we start running a program, execution begins with method main. Executing of a method means executing statement after statement in sequence. Please note that loops like for and while are considered as a single (may be complex) statement. As CPUs started becoming faster and faster and OS started supporting multi-tasking, ...
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