Oracle has announced the release of Java 24, which adds several new features to the language, such as the availability of the Stream Gatherers API and Class-File API, and new features designed for ...

Processing streams and insight into classes Java 24 finalizes two important features, with Stream Gatherers and the Class-File API. Both have had two previews each in Java 22 and Java 23.

Parallel streams utilize the fork/join pool which defaults to the number of available cores. This can help improve performance, but it's limited by the pool size and the fact that this is I/O-bound ...