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Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...

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This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are easy to ...

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...

I had a wonderful experience chatting with the folks at RapidMind. The company provides C/C++ programmers with a very clever tool to help them exploit the parallel processing capability of multiple ...