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mbreese
on Feb 20, 2011
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Java Fork/Join for Parallel Programming
This doesn't actually fork a JVM process, right? It's just splitting up a calculation "unit", which behind the scenes gets mapped to different execution threads. Does that sound about right?
andreaja
on Feb 20, 2011
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As I understand it, that is about it. And for that exact reason it bugs me that they call it
fork
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iliastsagklis
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Yeap, that's exactly it...
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