If a pipeline is of a known size then the average operation need not maintain a count of the elements.

For example, given the following pipeline:

  double[] d =
  DoubleStream ds = DoubleStream.of(d);
  double a = ds.average().getOrElse(0.0);

The size of the pipeline is the size of the array.

The implementation of average is currently:

        double[] avg = collect(() -> new double[4],
                               (ll, d) -> {
                                   ll[2]++;
                                   Collectors.sumWithCompensation(ll, d);
                                   ll[3] += d;
                               },
                               (ll, rr) -> {
                                   Collectors.sumWithCompensation(ll, rr[0]);
                                   Collectors.sumWithCompensation(ll, rr[1]);
                                   ll[2] += rr[2];
                                   ll[3] += rr[3];
                               });

and it can be implemented as follows when the size is known:

  sum() / pipeline_size

(Assuming it is easy to surface the size of the pipeline, otherwise a special op is required to get access to that information).