threaded progames

So guys I hear of many people saying single threaded programs suck. I personally program in java and i have a question. Even when i make a single thread program in java and then look @ it via jconsole it appears to have ~5-10 threads up at any time. Does that mean it's already multi-threaded and really wouldn't make a shit load of a difference since i'm already using multiple cores?

/prog/ what is multiprocessing vs multithreading?

>>41
Ask in /pr/.

>>41
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node29.html#SECTION002910000000000000000

The terms are used by convention (and/or according to a particular standard or document) so I wouldn't take that as absolutely definitive, but it will give you a good idea.

>>43
You HELPED HIM!

>>44
There are about 50 people on /prog/ who don't have a clue about this stuff. That's ~45-47 more than there are people here, so it is a serious problem. They're not going away, so education is the only option.

I forgot to note in >>43 that "threads" and "processes" as discussed in that link don't even begin to explore concurrency.