In Java 8 specifically, a parallel stream is designed to leverage a multi-core architecture. Let’s see how you can use them to run our first attempt of calculating the variance in a faster way.

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

For example, the Streams API focuses on parallel processing of large data sets, and Project Nashorn’s faster JavaScript engine is all about performance in server workloads.