Java ForkJoinPool

The Java ForkJoinPool helps you break down large tasks into smaller subtasks which can be executed in parallel using all, or some, of the CPU cores available in your computer. The Java ForkJoinPool thus helps you implement a fork and join type of work break down and parallelism.

The Java ForkJoinPool implements a work stealing algorithm which further helps utilize the CPU cores in your computer more efficiently. This work stealing algorithm is also explained in this Java ForkJoinPool tutorial.

Chapters:

0:00 Java ForkJoinPool introduction
1:18 Dividing tasks into subtasks
1:59 Fork and join process
3:48 Work stealing
7:27 Creating a ForkJoinPool code example
9:16 Submitting actions and tasks to a ForkJoinPool
10:56 RecursiveAction vs. RecursiveTask
11:55 RecursiveAction implementation example
18:28 RecursiveTask implementation example
22:32 Additional ForkJoinPool methods

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[itsahandle]

Jakob you have destroyed the fear of multithreading in my mind, I hope this video and the channel gets the popularity it deserves ❤

[jay-jl]

Love your style of teaching, you break down a concept and make it easy to follow with your diagrams and then showing the code demos.

[qurdedu]

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[loyyeeko]

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[TECH_KG]

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[personalaccount]

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[sengao]

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[farrukhahmedsid]

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[kimo]

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[avalagum]

At 4:30, I thought that there was a single queue holding tasks. The executor choose a free thread to execute the next task in that single queue. In what executor, do we have a queue of tasks for each thread?

[kdziolak]

Thanks for the brilliant video, as always, clear and concise. I am still curious how does the async IO, CPU sharing look like. In the examples all the tasks were completed e2e. Is there a correct way of using IO, to make sure it's FJP compliant?

[pouyarezaei-un]

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[adhiprasetyo]

should I learn operating system before learning java thread ?

[avs]

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