Resources on the upcoming fork-join framework

Question

I\'m looking for well organized information sources about how the upcoming jsr166y (fork-join, fences) and extras166y (ParallelArray, etc.) can be used - something from tuto

Answer 1

The IBM Developerworks website has a good series on this, but the most informative source I've found is this presentation by Brian Goetz, which is well worth an hour of your time. He spends the first 25 mins talking about the background, but then presents some great examples of the new framework.

Answer 2

Here is presentation with best practices when using fork-join framework for computations:

http://people.apache.org/~shade/talks/jeeconf-May2012-forkjoin.pdf

Answer 3

Doug Lea homepage, check also the wiki

Answer 4

Brian Goetz gave an excellent talk at Devoxx 08 called from Concurrent to Parallel on the fork join framework and the Parallel Array abstraction on top of it. You can view the video of the talk and the slides at Parleys