How does Java makes use of multiple cores?

Question

A JVM runs in a single process and threads in a JVM share the heap belonging to that process. Then how does JVM make use of multiple cores which provide multiple OS threads

Answer 1

You can make use of multiple cores using multiple threads. But using a higher number of threads than the number of cores present in a machine can simply be a waste of resources. You can use availableProcessors() to get the number of cores.

In Java 7 there is fork/join framework to make use of multiple cores.

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