Java - Parallel Array Sorting

Current sorting implementations provided by the Java Collections Framework (Collections.sort and Arrays.sort) all perform the sorting operation sequentially in the calling thread.

This enhancement will offer the same set of sorting operations currently provided by the Arrays class

Example:

public class Arrays {

  ...
  public static void parallelSort(byte[] a) { ... }
  public static void parallelSort(byte[] a, int fromIndex, int toIndex)
  public static void parallelSort(short[] a) { ... }
  public static void parallelSort(short[] a, int fromIndex, int toIndex)
    {...}

  ...

}