Does Java have support for multicore processors/parallel processing?

Question

I know that now that most processors have two or more cores, multicore programming is all the rage. Is there functionality to utilize this in Java? I know that Java has a Th

Answer 1

In most Java implementations, you can rely on Java threads being real OS threads. As a result, the operating system will take care of making sure that the workload is distributed across multiple cores if you use the Thread class.

Operating system threads pre-date commodity multicore systems by a long time, so that's not a concern really. The only difference multicore systems made was to allow time-multiplexed operating system threads to be executed as truly concurrent threads on multiple cores.