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* tasks or using synchronizers such as Phasers that are advertised to |
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* cooperate with fork/join scheduling. Subdividable tasks should also |
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* not perform blocking IO, and should ideally access variables that |
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* not perform blocking I/O, and should ideally access variables that |
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* are completely independent of those accessed by other running |
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* tasks. These guidelines are loosely enforced by not permitting |
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* checked exceptions such as {@code IOExceptions} to be |
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* <p>It is possible to define and use ForkJoinTasks that may block, |
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* of few if any <em>other</em> tasks should be dependent on a task |
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* that blocks on external synchronization or IO. Event-style async |
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* that blocks on external synchronization or I/O. Event-style async |
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* tasks that are never joined (for example, those subclassing {@link |
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