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+/*
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+
+/*
+ * This file is available under and governed by the GNU General Public
+ * License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ * However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this
+ * file:
+ *
+ * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
+ * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at
+ * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
+ */
+
+package java.util.concurrent;
+
+/**
+ * A recursive result-bearing {@link ForkJoinTask}.
+ *
+ * <p>For a classic example, here is a task computing Fibonacci numbers:
+ *
+ *  <pre> {@code
+ * class Fibonacci extends RecursiveTask<Integer> {
+ *   final int n;
+ *   Fibonacci(int n) { this.n = n; }
+ *   Integer compute() {
+ *     if (n <= 1)
+ *        return n;
+ *     Fibonacci f1 = new Fibonacci(n - 1);
+ *     f1.fork();
+ *     Fibonacci f2 = new Fibonacci(n - 2);
+ *     return f2.compute() + f1.join();
+ *   }
+ * }}</pre>
+ *
+ * However, besides being a dumb way to compute Fibonacci functions
+ * (there is a simple fast linear algorithm that you'd use in
+ * practice), this is likely to perform poorly because the smallest
+ * subtasks are too small to be worthwhile splitting up. Instead, as
+ * is the case for nearly all fork/join applications, you'd pick some
+ * minimum granularity size (for example 10 here) for which you always
+ * sequentially solve rather than subdividing.
+ *
+ * @since 1.7
+ * @author Doug Lea
+ */
+public abstract class RecursiveTask<V> extends ForkJoinTask<V> {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 5232453952276485270L;
+
+    /**
+     * The result of the computation.
+     */
+    V result;
+
+    /**
+     * The main computation performed by this task.
+     */
+    protected abstract V compute();
+
+    public final V getRawResult() {
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    protected final void setRawResult(V value) {
+        result = value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Implements execution conventions for RecursiveTask.
+     */
+    protected final boolean exec() {
+        result = compute();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+}