CIS 260 Other threading topics

• yield(): allows other threads a chance to run
• priorities: higher priority threads will be given more time to run than lower priority threads
  • setPriority(): sets a thread's priority
  • getPriority(): gets a thread's priority
• groups: threads can be organized into groups, which allows operations to be carried out on multiple threads
• daemons: daemons are threads that run in the background; a program stops when all non-daemon threads have finished running
• the synchronized modifier is NOT inherited with a method
• synchronizing is expensive, but often neccessary

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