Java 8 added lots of new methods to allow parallel processing for arrays. The most frequently used one is parallelSort() which may speed up the arrays sorting on multicore machines.

Java 8 new methods for Arrays

• Arrays.parallelSetAll(): Set all elements of the specified array, in parallel, using the provided generator function to compute each element.
• Arrays.parallelSort(): Sorts the specified array into ascending numerical order.
• Arrays.parallelPrefix(): Cumulates, in parallel, each element of the given array in place, using the supplied function.

Example: Arrays Parallel Processing

In this example uses method parallelSetAll() to fill up arrays with 25000 random values.
After that, the apply parallelSort() on these arrays values. Here you can see the output of the initial 10 values before and after sorting.

public class ParallelArrays {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		    long[] arrayOfLong = new long [ 25000 ];
            //Fill long array with random numbers parallelly
	        Arrays.parallelSetAll( arrayOfLong,index -> ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt( 1000000 ) );
			//Print initial 10 values of array
            System.out.println("Before Sorting:Print initial 10 values of array");
	        Arrays.stream( arrayOfLong ).limit( 10 ).forEach(i -> System.out.print( i + " " ) );
	        System.out.println();
			//Parallel Sort Array Values
	        Arrays.parallelSort( arrayOfLong );
			//Print initial 10 values of array
			System.out.println("After Sorting:Print initial 10 values of array");
	        Arrays.stream( arrayOfLong ).limit( 10 ).forEach(i -> System.out.print( i + " " ) );
	        System.out.println();
	}

}

Output

Before Sorting:Print initial 10 values of array
164965 546280 269106 800751 338598 862392 358814 206345 611726 788465 
After Sorting: Print initial 10 values of array
4 13 87 93 94 145 203 281 319 397

References

• https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html