Intermediate and Terminal operations in java 8
Intermediate and Terminal operations in Java 8
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Intermediate Operations |
Terminal Operations |
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They return stream. |
They return non-stream values. |
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They can be chained together to form a pipeline of operations. |
They can’t be chained together. |
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Pipeline of operations may contain any number of intermediate operations. |
Pipeline of operations can have maximum one terminal operation, that too at the end. |
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Intermediate operations are lazily loaded. |
Terminal operations are eagerly loaded. |
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They don’t produce end result. |
They produce end result. |
