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30  *
31  * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
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35 
36 package java.util.concurrent;
37 
38 /**
39  * A recursive result-bearing {@link ForkJoinTask}.
40  *
41  * <p>For example, here is a task-based program for computing Factorials:
42  *
43  * <pre> {@code
44  * import java.util.concurrent.RecursiveTask;
45  * import java.math.BigInteger;
46  * public class Factorial {
47  *   static class FactorialTask extends RecursiveTask<BigInteger> {
48  *     private final int from, to;
49  *     FactorialTask(int from, int to) { this.from = from; this.to = to; }
50  *     protected BigInteger compute() {
51  *       int range = to - from;
52  *       if (range == 0) {                       // base case
53  *         return BigInteger.valueOf(from);
54  *       } else if (range == 1) {                // too small to parallelize
55  *         return BigInteger.valueOf(from).multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(to));
56  *       } else {                                // split in half
57  *         int mid = from + range / 2;
58  *         FactorialTask leftTask = new FactorialTask(from, mid);
59  *         leftTask.fork();         // perform about half the work locally
60  *         return new FactorialTask(mid + 1, to).compute()
61  *                .multiply(leftTask.join());
62  *       }
63  *     }
64  *   }
65  *   static BigInteger factorial(int n) { // uses ForkJoinPool.commonPool()
66  *     return (n <= 1) ? BigInteger.ONE : new FactorialTask(1, n).invoke();
67  *   }
68  *   public static void main(String[] args) {
69  *     System.out.println(factorial(Integer.parseInt(args[0])));
70  *   }
71  * }}</pre>
72  *
73  * @param <V> the type of the result of the task
74  *
75  * @since 1.7
76  * @author Doug Lea
77  */
78 public abstract class RecursiveTask<V> extends ForkJoinTask<V> {
79     private static final long serialVersionUID = 5232453952276485270L;
80 
81     /**
82      * Constructor for subclasses to call.
83      */
RecursiveTask()84     public RecursiveTask() {}
85 
86     /**
87      * The result of the computation.
88      */
89     @SuppressWarnings("serial") // Conditionally serializable
90     V result;
91 
92     /**
93      * The main computation performed by this task.
94      * @return the result of the computation
95      */
compute()96     protected abstract V compute();
97 
getRawResult()98     public final V getRawResult() {
99         return result;
100     }
101 
setRawResult(V value)102     protected final void setRawResult(V value) {
103         result = value;
104     }
105 
106     /**
107      * Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask.
108      */
exec()109     protected final boolean exec() {
110         result = compute();
111         return true;
112     }
113 
114 }
115