public
abstract
class
RecursiveTask
extends ForkJoinTask<V>
java.lang.Object | ||
↳ | java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask<V> | |
↳ | java.util.concurrent.RecursiveTask<V> |
A recursive result-bearing ForkJoinTask
.
For a classic example, here is a task computing Fibonacci numbers:
class Fibonacci extends RecursiveTask<Integer> {
final int n;
Fibonacci(int n) { this.n = n; }
protected Integer compute() {
if (n <= 1)
return n;
Fibonacci f1 = new Fibonacci(n - 1);
f1.fork();
Fibonacci f2 = new Fibonacci(n - 2);
return f2.compute() + f1.join();
}
}
However, besides being a dumb way to compute Fibonacci functions
(there is a simple fast linear algorithm that you'd use in
practice), this is likely to perform poorly because the smallest
subtasks are too small to be worthwhile splitting up. Instead, as
is the case for nearly all fork/join applications, you'd pick some
minimum granularity size (for example 10 here) for which you always
sequentially solve rather than subdividing.
Public constructors | |
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RecursiveTask()
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Public methods | |
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final
V
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getRawResult()
Returns the result that would be returned by |
Protected methods | |
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abstract
V
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compute()
The main computation performed by this task. |
final
boolean
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exec()
Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask. |
final
void
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setRawResult(V value)
Forces the given value to be returned as a result. |
Inherited methods | |
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From
class
java.util.concurrent.ForkJoinTask
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From
class
java.lang.Object
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From
interface
java.util.concurrent.Future
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V getRawResult ()
Returns the result that would be returned by join()
, even
if this task completed abnormally, or null
if this task
is not known to have been completed. This method is designed
to aid debugging, as well as to support extensions. Its use in
any other context is discouraged.
Returns | |
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V |
the result, or null if not completed
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V compute ()
The main computation performed by this task.
Returns | |
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V |
the result of the computation |
boolean exec ()
Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask.
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boolean |
true if this task is known to have completed normally
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void setRawResult (V value)
Forces the given value to be returned as a result. This method is designed to support extensions, and should not in general be called otherwise.
Parameters | |
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value |
V :
the value
|