On Nov 30, 2007 10:02 AM, Bruno Harbulot
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The reason why there are several processes used for running a Java
> program is indeed because it's running within the JVM, which uses
> processes for Just-In-Time compilation and garbage collection amongst
> other things, on top of the main program's thread.
Just so folks don't get confused... they aren't "processes" that are
defined and called "threads" in Java.
How Java threads are implemented is well... and implementation
detail... but on Mac OS X they are built on top of pthreads.
-Shawn
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