A parallel stream splits its source into parts and processes them on several threads at once, then combines the results. You get one by calling parallelStream() on a collection or parallel() on an existing stream; sequential() switches back, and isParallel() tells you the mode. Because the whole pipeline has a single mode, the last parallel() or sequential() call wins. By default the work runs in the common ForkJoinPool.
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