Concurrency
• Concurrency for optimal multi-core performance. In this edition, we were privileged to have as a reviewer Brian Goetz, co-author of Java Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley). We updated Chapter 23, with Java SE 8 technology and idiom. We added a parallelSort vs. sort example that uses the Java SE 8 Date/Time API to time each operation and demonstrate parallelSort’s better performance on a multi-core system. We include a Java SE 8 parallel vs. sequential stream processing example, again using the Date/Time API to show performance improvements. Finally, we added a Java SE 8 CompletableFuture example that demonstrates sequential and parallel execution of long-running calculations.
• SwingWorker class. We use class SwingWorker ...
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