"This will no doubt further improve the performance of Scala's higher-level parallelism construct," he said in a released statement, "including its parallel collections and actors." I recently talked ...

This article explores some of Java 8’s new features, using both Java’s proposed syntax and Scala. We cover lambda expressions, higher-order functions, parallel collections and virtual ...

Why should you use Collections class methods rather than similarly named fields to obtain empty collections? Type safety makes the crucial difference.