Java programs are multithreaded, whether you like it or not. This comparative review of six Java thread programming books will help you decide which books are the best read for learning the Java ...

Figure 1. The architecture of virtual threads in Java. In this architecture, the application instantiates virtual threads and the JVM assigns the compute resources to handle them.

The document is written assuming that the architecture of the computer is big endian, and so an x86 implementation needs to byte-swap every 512 bit block before it is processed.