Month: July 2018

Leveraging Lambda Expressions for Lazy Evaluation in Java

Leveraging Lambda Expressions for Lazy Evaluation in Java

Published July 25, 2018

In Java, the potential of lazy evaluation is quite neglected (actually, at the language level, it’s pretty much limited to the implementation of minimal evaluation) – advanced languages like Scala, for example, differentiate between call-by-value and call-by-name calls, or introduce dedicated keywords like lazy.

JDK9’s ForkJoinPool Upgrades

Published July 14, 2018

While everyone’s busy with modularity, local-variable-type-inference, and other Next Big Things of recent JDK releases, there’s a fairly small and important update for the ForkJoinPool that deserves some attention.