[The Java Posse] Re: Quicksort: Executor vs Fork Join

2013-05-08 Thread John May
Very interesting. I've had quite good results with fork/join but for simply processing large arrays in chunks. I've had a quick look at the fork/join implementation and it looks like you create a new task for each recursive step but I could be wrong. If so, try adding a threshold to determine w

[The Java Posse] Rich Hickey - The Value of Values

2012-08-15 Thread John May
I remember Dick mentioned this talk on a previous newscast (20-Jul... I think), I couldn't find it at the time but it sounded interesting. Luckily someone posted it on /r/programming the other day. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values J -- You received this message because you are

[The Java Posse] Re: Equivalent for JSR-275 ?

2012-07-23 Thread John May
I'm not sure if it's "equivalent" but JScience provides an implementation of the Units of Measure interfaces. On Monday, July 23, 2012 12:30:30 PM UTC+1, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > > I've been asked to find something for units of measures &