This is an old version of this library kept here for historical purposes. The latest version is available here https://github.com/OpenHFT/Java-Thread-Affinity ---- [ Project Development Summary ] https://www.ohloh.net/p/Java-Thread-Affinity [ Version History ] Verions 3.x - moved to https://github.com/OpenHFT/Java-Thread-Affinity Version 1.6.3 - Added AffinityLock.isAllocated() and isBound() so you can check whether a CPU could be allocated. Version 1.6.2 - Initial implementation for Mac OS for its thread policies. This is not the same as affinity but may be equivalent. Version 1.6.1 - Improved behaviour on machines without thread affinity support esp. Macs. Version 1.6 - First formal release available under https://github.com/peter-lawrey/Java-Thread-Affinity/tree/master/repository Version 1.5.5 - Added native support for Linux/amd64, thank you akerbos. Version 1.5.4 - Added native support extracted from JAR and native build for Linux/i386, thank you isopov. Version 1.5.3 - Build on Windows cleanly. Added a Unix profile for Unix enhanced build. Version 1.5.2 - Added Windows support and Javadoc for all public methods. Version 1.5.1 - Add changes to support i386 and Intel i3 #9 #10 Version 1.5 - Add support for efficient pause()ing, whileEqual and whileLessThan with limited busy waiting. Version 1.4.1 - Add an AffinityThreadFactory to support ExecutorService Version 1.4 - Support binding of a whole core for hyper-threaded systems. AffinityLock.acquireCore() Version 1.3 - Support thread layout strategies for using the same/different socket or cores. Version 1.2.2 - Improve logging and handling of edge cases Version 1.2.1 - Fix a critical bug and added a unit test. Version 1.2 - Restructure to separate Thread Affinity and nanoTime() functionality. Verison 1.1 - Add JNA implementation Verison 1.0 - JNI implementation [ Contributers ] peter.lawrey - Lead Developer.