Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java thread question Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:00:46 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <8692d198-04b4-4b21-915e-b0630cf0c256@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="6845"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/nsPKlcOsWF/wHaYiWUOL" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <8692d198-04b4-4b21-915e-b0630cf0c256@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:chmq/cl00H397/QQfyrkZHaJ6hQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27947 On 4/3/2014 6:10 PM, mcheung63@gmail.com wrote: > [...] > [... more quoting than needed ...] > [... all of it double-spaced ...] > [...] > Thanks, that mean the advantage of fork/join is : I don't need to manage a thread pool by myself. Yes, largely. Note, too, that the efficient management of task counts in the millions is no easy matter, so another advantage is "I don't need to *invent* a super-efficient thread pool myself." -- Eric Sosman esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid