The code below behaves very strangely. The GUI thread is blocked, even though "work" is a totally different thread. If I put a print statement in mouseClicked, the print executes, work keeps running.

A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. Multithreading is the ability to have multiple threads in memory at a given time and switch among them to handle multiple operations at the ...

Google today revealed a tweak it has made in the latest Chrome beta to further boost performance: concurrent compilation, which offloads a large part of the optimizing compilation phase to a ...