Concurrent Threads in Java

• Extend class Thread or

• Implement interface Runnable -- Preferred!

• start member functions starts thread, runs member function run

• Memory is shared -- threads communicate by reading/writing to same memory locations

• Need Synchronization to avoid race conditions

• Threads run concurrently

  • time-sliced on a single processor
  • in parallel on an SMP (depending on OS)

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