Version 24 version introduces several new language features which collectively simplify code, and provide powerful tools for bytecode manipulation and advanced stream processing.

Parallelizing the actual parsing is probably a bad idea, especially as SAX parsing is fast.<BR><BR>Of course, I'm wary as to the actual benefits of parallelizing this in the first place.

The classfile API proposal notes that class file generation, parsing, and instrumentation are ubiquitous in the Java ecosystem, with many tools and libraries needing to process class files.

You may have seen recently that Java suffers from a similar floating-point parsing bug to the one that recently affected PHP users. The basic gist of it is that for this special 64-bit floating ...