Hello there. My first question: TaskTimer implements Runnable, so it is by definition a thread, correct? Assuming TaskTimer is a thread, how efficient is it from processor's perspective? Let's assume we have a 4 cpu system. If I run a TaskTimer thread, spawned by the main thread, will it use another CPU? How responsive would my main thread by? Also, assuming we have Unix, no matter how many threads I instantiate, I only see a single java process from the operating system's point of view. This seems logical because we don't want to instantiate a whole new JVM just to spawn a thread. But if it is a single process, it goes back to my first question, how efficient use can the OS make of multiple CPUs from a single JVM with many th   More>>