Research and Destroy

The idea is that a ParallelArray represents a collection of structurally similar data items, and you use the methods on ParallelArray to create a description of how you want to slice and dice the data. You then use the description to actually execute the array operations, which uses the fork-join framework under the hood, in parallel…This idea coming in JDK 7 :)

In fact, here are some operations supported by ParallelArray:

• Filtering: selecting a subset of the elements
• Mapping: convert selected elements to another form
• Replacement: create a new ParallelArray derived from the original
• Aggregation: combine all values into a single value
• Application: perform an action for each selected element

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