Re: Low-overhead multi-threading? (Was: Re: Increase WinXP/jre CPU usage?)

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:59:27 GMT
Message-ID:
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Steve Brecher wrote:
....

(For readers just joining us: I am a Java newbie.)

With respect and thanks, optimization is the not the issue. The code is a
port of long-standing C code that is highly optimized -- I'm very familiar
with optimization techniques; actually, that is my specialty. I'd like to
try multi-threading it.

The loops enumerate cases. For each case, there are "n" significant
computations, each accomplished in AStaticMethod (excuse the initial
upper-case :). Multi-threading the executions of that method would be a
very easy way to begin. Partitioning the enumeration of cases on the other
hand, would be difficult -- at this writing, I don't have a scheme to do
that.

So far my knowledge of Java multi-threading is based on rapid pass through
the relevant material in Flanagan's "Java in a Nutshell" and Sun's "The Java
Tutorials."

If possible, I would like a way to do the multi-threading that creates no
objects for each execution of AStaticMethod. Currently the code, after
startup, creates no objects and incurs no GC.


I don't know whether the books you have cover the java.util.concurrent
features added in JDK 1.5. You may find something useful there.

Patricia

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