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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9 - Second Edition

By : Javier Fernández González
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Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 9 - Second Edition

By: Javier Fernández González

Overview of this book

Concurrency programming allows several large tasks to be divided into smaller sub-tasks, which are further processed as individual tasks that run in parallel. Java 9 includes a comprehensive API with lots of ready-to-use components for easily implementing powerful concurrency applications, but with high flexibility so you can adapt these components to your needs. The book starts with a full description of the design principles of concurrent applications and explains how to parallelize a sequential algorithm. You will then be introduced to Threads and Runnables, which are an integral part of Java 9's concurrency API. You will see how to use all the components of the Java concurrency API, from the basics to the most advanced techniques, and will implement them in powerful real-world concurrency applications. The book ends with a detailed description of the tools and techniques you can use to test a concurrent Java application, along with a brief insight into other concurrency mechanisms in JVM.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 7. Optimizing Divide and Conquer Solutions - The Fork/Join Framework

In Chapter 3, Managing Lots of Threads - Executors, Chapter 4, Getting the Most from Executors, and Chapter 5, Getting Data from Tasks - The Callable and Future Interfaces, you learned how to work with executors as a mechanism to improve the performance of concurrent applications that execute lots of concurrent tasks. The Java 7 Concurrency API introduced a special kind of executor through the fork/join framework. This framework is designed to implement optimal concurrent solutions to those problems that can be solved using the divide and conquer design paradigm. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • An introduction to the fork/join framework
  • The first example - the k-means clustering algorithm
  • The second example - a data filtering algorithm
  • The third example - the merge sort algorithm