Re: Threads, waiting for last one to finish
On 01/13/2013 02:38 PM, Robert Klemme wrote:
On 12.01.2013 06:19, Knute Johnson wrote:
On 1/11/2013 1:56 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
I have 25 threads that start at once. I need to wait until the last
one completes. Is there a better way to handle that than using a
ThreadPoolExecutor which seems overkill.
You can always join() them.
I am surprised that this got just one mention so far. In absence of
Executor (which has some issues, as has been mentioned) this is the most
straightforward way to do it.
// untested and from memory
final Thread[] threads = new Thread[15];
for ( int i = 0; i < threads.length; ++i ) {
final Thread th = new Thread(...);
th.start();
threads[i] = th;
}
for ( final Thread th : threads ) {
th.join();
}
Kind regards
robert
You're both right, of course. One of the hazards - speaking for myself -
of seizing on java.util.concurrent and reading JCIP through several
times is that one may tend to forget the original Java concurrency
constructs.
I think join() satisfies Roedy's problem statement the best; in any case
the latches and barriers have different endgame behaviour.
AHS
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