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To: QwikSand who wrote (44361)	8/4/2001 1:42:28 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

You nailed it. I never learned Java, but glancing at it way back when, I recall seeing thread classes and thread objects and so forth. That is, essentially API's that a programmer would use to create explicit concurrent execution paths in an application Java's standardized API's make thread programming possible in a cross-platform cross-application way, and the Java tools which have developed to support debugging multi-threaded programs mean that programmers are much more able to build stable high-performance threaded programs. C/C++ never managed to come up with a standardized threads API, and tools to debug multi-threaded C/C++ code are hampered by the code being executed directly by the CPU, not a virtual machine. Right now I'm working on a Java Application Server. A single instance of that server runs hundreds of threads to manage its internal resources. This kind of software will run beautifully on thread-parallel CPU's. Just what SUNW would like, the operating system of the Internet (J2EE) running on their USV hardware. P.