The authors compare different methods to compute the variance of a large data set using an imperative style, The fork/join framework and the new Streams API in Java 8 ...

Parallel streams are implemented using the Fork/Join framework that was added to Java 7. Parallelizing the operations in a stream pipeline is usually as simple as replacing the call to stream() in ...

Sumatra will repurpose Java 8’s multi-core APIs called Stream or Lambda to enable both CPU or GPU computing, but it will need an extra layer of code for parallel execution.

A preview feature in Java is one that is not yet added permanently even though its design, specification, and implementation are complete. Presently Java has quite a few preview features in the ...