Re: JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Thompson
Both JEP 103 and JEP 108 are interesting to me because they remind me of something I've discussed a couple of times with one of the engineers working on the JDK at Apple. (I'll not name him solely because his input was a casual 'that sounds interesting' and I don't want to imply he endorses this

Re: JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2011-10-05 Thread Doug Lea
On 10/05/11 03:53, Kasper Nielsen wrote: On 05-10-2011 05:08, Andrew Thompson wrote: So is there any convergence between these ideas? Should we be thinking about adding a default ForkJoinPool to the platform, or should we be thinking about adding a default ExecutorService to the platform, Ther

Re: JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2011-10-05 Thread Kasper Nielsen
On 05-10-2011 05:08, Andrew Thompson wrote: So is there any convergence between these ideas? Should we be thinking about adding a default ForkJoinPool to the platform, or should we be thinking about adding a default ExecutorService to the platform, which may or may not be a ForkJoinPool based

Re: JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew Thompson
Both JEP 103 and JEP 108 are interesting to me because they remind me of something I've discussed a couple of times with one of the engineers working on the JDK at Apple. (I'll not name him solely because his input was a casual 'that sounds interesting' and I don't want to imply he endorses this

Re: JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2011-10-04 Thread David Holmes
Hi Janda, Thanks for the comments. On 4/10/2011 7:48 PM, Janda Martin wrote: I hope that this is correct mailing list to comment JEP 103. It certainly is. Proposal: provide static methods for creating sort tasks. This allows developers to have full control over ForkJoinPool. I'd persona

JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting - proposal, reaction to Mr. Harned post

2011-10-04 Thread Janda Martin
I hope that this is correct mailing list to comment JEP 103. Proposal: provide static methods for creating sort tasks. This allows developers to have full control over ForkJoinPool. There can be problem with one shared defaultFJPool() in multi-module applications (like Netbeans platform) when

JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting

2011-10-03 Thread Edward Harned
Re: In opposition to JEP 103 I oppose the JEP 103 proposal for four major reasons as stated in this PDF: http://coopsoft.com/dl/Oppose103.pdf If preferred I can post the text here. Ed

JEP 103: Parallel Array Sorting

2011-09-26 Thread mark . reinhold
Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/103 - Mark