Avik Sengupta writes an article with his view on how Java could be multicore-friendly.
“Dual-core processors are ubiquitous in desktop computers and laptops today; four to eight cores are common in servers, and within the lifetime of the next version of the JDK (Java 7), we are likely to see servers with dozens of cores become available in bulk.”
“the task of parallelizing our applications looks no different from multithreaded programming. The Java language is widely praised for having a simple yet powerful threading model that makes writing effective multithreaded applications mainstream. It may therefore seem likely that the ease of writing multithreaded applications will enable us to surmount the challenge of writing multicore applications, but in practice it may not be so easy.”
