Thread pools were devised to eliminate/mitigate the overhead involved in thread creation. But I'm having trouble proving to myself that (given some minimally nontrivial work) a thread's creation time ...

Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

Pooling resources (also called object pooling) among multiple clients is a technique used to promote object reuse and to reduce the overhead of creating new resources, resulting in better performance ...

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 ...

I've got a fairly large legacy fat-client app that needs some performance improvements in its DB access since the powers that be have decided to relocate the SQL servers that the client talks to about ...