Yesterday JavaWorld.com published a new article titled "Multicore processing for client-side Java applications". You're welcome to take a look and let me know what you think. Here's a summary of the article:

It's a well-known fact that hardware companies are abandoning the race for single-CPU speed and instead are focusing on multicore processors. Despite the fact that many algorithms can be easily parallelized, most client-side Java code is still written for single-CPU systems. This article shows you how to fine-tune a core JDK array-sorting algorithm for improved processing speed of as much as 35%.