From Thread.join(), to invokeAll(), to the Fork/join Framework
Fork/join Framework (FJF) is new in Java 7. It was developed by Doug Lea based on his paper “A Java Fork/Join Framework“. Simply speaking, the Fork/join Framework helps parallelize divide-and-conquer algorithms by multi-threading. It divides a big chuck of work into smaller pieces, sends them to a set of threads to process, waits until all [...]