News, notes and quotes from the paddock Saturday at Barber Motorsports Park, where Graham Rahal (photo) tied his season best by qualifying third.

Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

Abstract: Remote method invocation in Java RMI allows the flow of control to pass across local Java threads and thereby span multiple virtual machines. However, the resulting distributed threads do ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...

In this article we discuss virtual threads that were first introduced in OpenJDK 19, and are now in a second preview in OpenJDK 20. To better understand virtual threads, it is best to draw a ...

As if Java wasn't already functional enough, here comes news that it's now able to scale out software even faster and more efficiently than previously. After all, Java – now 28 years old – is being ...

ForkJoinPool is a powerful Java class used for processing computationally intensive tasks. It works by breaking down tasks into smaller subtasks and then executing them in parallel. This thread pool ...