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Java 7 – Project Coin Feature Overview

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We discussed previously everything that didn’t make it into Java 7 and then reviewed the useful Fork/Join Framework that did make it in. Today’s post will take us through each of the Project Coin features – a collection of small language enhancements that aren’t groundbreaking, but are nonetheless useful for any developer able to use … Read more

Java 7 – Fork/Join

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While we lamented how feature-poor Java 7 turned out to be, one thing that made it that turns out to be a boon to high-performance concurrent development is the new Fork/Join framework. This framework is targeted at multi-processor systems (really almost all hardware today) in situations where a batch of work can broken into smaller … Read more