Variable Thread Number

[Davide Crudo]

Dear Experts,

Is there a way to have a method generate a certain amount of threads to do the job?

Normally i would manually create each single thread and start it, but what if i want the user to choose
how many threads to use without pre building them for various cases?

for instance something like this (where "t&i" is a dynamic variable name):

   
public void startWork(Network nw, Integer numberOfThreadsWanted){
		
	for(int i=0; i < numberOfThreadsWanted-1; i++){
	
	Thread t&i = new Thread(nw);
	t&i.start();
		
	}

I could accomplish the above, with the following, but i was thinking if there is a shorter way:
(the code below is taking the advantage that the variable dies with the block, but the thread still
carries the job to the end before killing the variable. In any case, once the thread is dead, is dead,
so this code would then dispose of the "t" variable with the next garbage collection...

 
public void startWork(Network nw, Integer numberOfThreadsWanted){
		
	for(int i=0; i < numberOfThreadsWanted-1; i++){
	
		for(int ii=0; ii<1; ii++){
			Thread t = new Thread(nw);
			t.start();
		}	
	}

Thanks!
Dave

[Ulf Dittmer]

There's no need to introduce a variable if you don't want one - "new Thread(nw).start()" works fine. If you're worrying about the overhead of allocating and disposing "t", that's highly unlikely to be measurable, much less noticeable by a human being.

By the way, "for (int i=0; i < numberOfThreadsWanted-1; i++)" only creates "numberOfThreadsWanted-1" threads - which may be one less than desired.

[Davide Crudo]

Hi Ulf!

You have an eagle eye to spot the issue with the loop variable! I always miss those...i eventually found it while debugging that running with one thread did not work...

... I always forget about the single notation with parameter passing...

I'm playing for the first time with threads..;)

Thanks for the great and quick help!

Dave