Why single thread is faster than multithreading in Java?

Question

As of my understanding I have written the simple single and multithreading program below to check the execution speed. But my single-threaded program executing faster than multithreaded, kindly see the below program and mention if anything is wrong.

Single Thread:

import java.util.Calendar;

public class NormalJava {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Single Thread");
        int a = 1000;
        int b = 200;
        NormalJava nj = new NormalJava();
        nj.Add(a, b);
        nj.Sub(a, b);
        nj.Mul(a, b);
        nj.Div(a, b);
        Calendar lCDateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("Calender - Time in milliseconds :"
                + lCDateTime.getTimeInMillis());

    }

    private void Add(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Add :::" + (a + b));
    }

    private void Sub(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Sub :::" + (a - b));
    }

    private void Mul(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Mul :::" + (a * b));
    }

    private void Div(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Mul :::" + (a / b));
    }
}

Output:
Single Thread
Add :::1200
Sub :::800
Mul :::200000
Mul :::5
Calender - Time in milliseconds :138 415 866 7863

Multithreaded Program:

package runnableandcallable;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class MainThread {

    private static ExecutorService service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(10); // connection
                                                                               // pool
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println("Multithreading");
        MainThread mt = new MainThread();
        mt.testThread(1000, 200);
        Calendar lCDateTime = Calendar.getInstance();
        System.out.println("Calender - Time in milliseconds :"
                + lCDateTime.getTimeInMillis());
    }

    public void testThread(final int a, final int b) {
        // create a callable for each method
        Callable<Void> callableAdd = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Add(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableSub = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Sub(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableMul = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Mul(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        Callable<Void> callableDiv = new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() throws Exception {
                Div(a, b);
                return null;
            }
        };

        // add to a list
        List<Callable<Void>> taskList = new ArrayList<Callable<Void>>();
        taskList.add(callableAdd);
        taskList.add(callableSub);
        taskList.add(callableMul);
        taskList.add(callableDiv);

        // create a pool executor with 3 threads
        ExecutorService executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(3);

        try {
            // start the threads
            List<Future<Void>> futureList = executor.invokeAll(taskList);

            for (Future<Void> voidFuture : futureList) {
                try {
                    // check the status of each future. get will block until the
                    // task
                    // completes or the time expires
                    voidFuture.get(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
                } catch (ExecutionException e) {
                    System.err
                            .println("Error executing task " + e.getMessage());
                } catch (TimeoutException e) {
                    System.err.println("Timed out executing task"
                            + e.getMessage());
                }

            }

        } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
            // do something if you care about interruption;
        }

    }

    private void Add(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Add :::" + (a + b));
    }

    private void Sub(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Sub :::" + (a - b));
    }

    private void Mul(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Multiply :::" + (a * b));
    }

    private void Div(int a, int b) {
        System.out.println("Division :::" + (a / b));
    }

}

Mulithreading Output:
Multithreading
Sub :::800
Division :::5
Add :::1200
Multiply :::200000
Calender - Time in milliseconds :138 415 868 0821

Here single thread executed at 138 415 866 7863 milliseconds and multithreading executed at this 138 415 868 0821 milliseconds. Then what is the real purpose of multithreading ?

Answer 1

The processing that you are doing is trivial, so the overhead of creating threads is more expensive.

If you had expensive operations which could be done in parallel then multi threads make sense.

Answer 2

First: Because the overhead of creating threads more, than the useful work performed by them.If you run more hard work in threads, it will make it faster than one thread.Trivial code must be runned in one thread.

Second: For creation micro-benchmark you should use JMH