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    /**
     * Arranges to asynchronously execute this task in the pool the
     * current task is running in, if applicable, or using the {@link
     * ForkJoinPool#commonPool()} if not {@link #inForkJoinPool}.  While
     * it is not necessarily enforced, it is a usage error to fork a
     * task more than once unless it has completed and been
     * reinitialized.  Subsequent modifications to the state of this
     * task or any data it operates on are not necessarily
     * consistently observable by any thread other than the one
     * executing it unless preceded by a call to {@link #join} or
     * related methods, or a call to {@link #isDone} returning {@code
     * true}.
     *
     * @return {@code this}, to simplify usage
     */
    public final ForkJoinTask<V> fork() {
        Thread t;
        if ((t = Thread.currentThread()) instanceof ForkJoinWorkerThread)
            ((ForkJoinWorkerThread)t).workQueue.push(this);
        else
            ForkJoinPool.common.externalPush(this);
        return this;
    }