X-Received: by 10.224.206.195 with SMTP id fv3mr3403437qab.1.1359586093327; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:13 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.193.3 with SMTP id hk3mr23157obc.15.1359586093193; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:13 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!p13no7220424qai.0!news-out.google.com!k2ni3907qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no7220418qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <510887fc$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <692563e7-016b-4f22-afaa-228965e501b8@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3283e20d-e72b-41df-98dc-9b539e149db9@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Tomcat Multi-Threading From: Lew Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:48:13 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21889 lipska the kat wrote: >Lew wrote: >>>>> In the world of Java, no applications are single threaded. > I think you may be confusing the VM and the threads it uses to do > housekeeping (garbage collection, assignment of execution threads to > multiple processors etc) with the application running in the VM, which, > unless you explicitly create a new Thread in your code will by default > be single threaded. No, I'm not confusing them, I'm referring to them. >> Do a little research. > > Well quite You obviously have done the research, since you mentioned the very threads to which I'm referring. The OP's question, as I'm pointing out for the third time, has to do with whether multi-core platforms will enhance performance if there are multiple threads. Since every Java program involves multiple threads, it's reasonable to assume that any effect that exists due to multiple CPUs would be relevant. -- Lew