Java 7 ForkJoinTask and Akka 2.0

Question

Is there any plan to leverage java 7 util.concurrent's ForkJoin APIs or, expose similar API in Akka?

Laoighis

I think you'd be better off asking on the Akka mailing list - groups.google.com/group/akka-user – Aeriel

Answer 1

We've been working with Doug Lea to improve ForkJoinPool for Akka, and I'm going to embed the new version for Akka 2.0: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/akka/tickets/1728

Read this for a summary from Doug: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2012-January/008987.html

But we won't be exposing the raw API of ForkJoin, that's what the ForkJoin framework is for.

Cheers, √

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