PluginManager#collectPlugins() performs quite some package scanning
sequentially. I have the impression that this operation can simply be
parallelized as follows:
Stream
.of(inputs)
.flatMap(input -> Stream
.of(ops)
.map(op -> new Object[]{op, input}))
.parallel()
.map(opAndInput -> {
final Function<Input, Output> op = opAndInput[0];
final Input input = opAndInput[1];
return op.accept(input);
})
.reduce(this::merge);
Here input denotes the packages and ops denote the independent sequential
steps performed in collectPlugins(). I don't know about the overhead of
this call, but the above simple effort might be worth a shot. What do you
think?
