Concerns about parallel streams

[Doug Lea]

Oops, I left out...

On 07/11/13 19:50, Doug Lea wrote:
> Despite this, the easy guidance is:
>
> If you have a lot of data, or very costly per-element computations,

and are not using some hopelessly sequential data structure,

> the best practice is to use parallel(). Otherwise, feel free to
> experiment with it, but don't expect any miracles.
>
> We could even give factor-of-1000-proof numbers here:
> A million elements. A million instructions
>

-Doug