MultiThreading.java

package com.elphel.imagej.common;

public class MultiThreading {
	public static int THREADS_MAX = 100;
	/* Create a Thread[] array as large as the number of processors available.
	 * From Stephan Preibisch's Multithreading.java class. See:
	 * http://repo.or.cz/w/trakem2.git?a=blob;f=mpi/fruitfly/general/MultiThreading.java;hb=HEAD
	 */
	public static Thread[] newThreadArray() {
		return newThreadArray (THREADS_MAX);
	}
	public static Thread[] newThreadArray(int maxCPUs) {
		int n_cpus = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
		if (n_cpus>maxCPUs)n_cpus=maxCPUs;
		return new Thread[n_cpus];
	}
/* Start all given threads and wait on each of them until all are done.
	 * From Stephan Preibisch's Multithreading.java class. See:
	 * http://repo.or.cz/w/trakem2.git?a=blob;f=mpi/fruitfly/general/MultiThreading.java;hb=HEAD
	 */
	public static void startAndJoin(Thread[] threads) // USED in lwir
	{
		for (int ithread = 0; ithread < threads.length; ++ithread)
		{
			threads[ithread].setPriority(Thread.NORM_PRIORITY);
			threads[ithread].start();
		}
		try
		{
			for (int ithread = 0; ithread < threads.length; ++ithread)
				threads[ithread].join();
		} catch (InterruptedException ie)
		{
			throw new RuntimeException(ie);
		}
	}
}