Does intermediate operations honors encounter order when terminal operation used in the same stream pipeline does not honors encounter order?

Piyush Kumar :

If I am using a map operation in a stream pipeline with forEach() terminal operation(which does not honors encounter order irrespective of whether its sequential or parallel stream) on the list (as source), will map respect the encounter order of the list in case of sequential or parallel stream ?

List<Integer> = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5)
someList.stream().map(i -> i*2).forEach(System.out::println) // this is sequential stream
someList.parallelStream().map(i -> i*2).forEach(System.out::println) // this is parallel stream

If yes, then in this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/47337690/5527839, it is mentioned map operation will be performed in parallel. If order is maintained, how it will make the performance better when using parallel stream. What a point of using parallel stream?

Deadpool :

If order is maintained, how it will make the performance better when using parallel stream. What a point of using parallel stream? (yes still you will gain the performance but not expected level)

Even if you use forEachOrdered() while parallelStream the intermediate operation map will be executed by concurrent threads, but in the terminal operation orEachOrdered makes them to process in order. Try below code you will see the parallelism in map operation

List<Integer> someList = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5);
            someList.stream().map(i -> {
                System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" Normal Stream : "+i);
                return i*2;
            }).forEach(System.out::println); // this is sequential stream

            System.out.println("this is parallel stream");

            someList.parallelStream().map(i -> {
                System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName()+" Parallel Stream : "+i);
                return i*2;
            }).forEachOrdered(System.out::println); // this is parallel stream

will map honor encounter order ? Is ordering any way related to intermediate operations ?

If it is parallelstream map will not encounter any order, if it is normal stream then map will encounter in order, it completely depends on stream not on intermediate operation