/// <summary>
/// Starts a new thread with the given index.
/// </summary>
/// <param name='i'>
/// I.
/// </param>
/// <param name='taskImplementation'>
/// Task implementation.
/// </param>
private void startThread(int i, taskFor taskImplementation)
{
int threadId = this.getFreeThread();
// No free thread case
if (threadId == -1)
{
// Wait for a new thread to get free
Thread.Sleep(10);
this.startThread(i, taskImplementation);
return;
}
// Instantiate parameterized thread start and thread
ParameterizedThreadStart pts = new ParameterizedThreadStart(this.forTaskProxy);
this.threads[threadId] = new Thread(pts);
// Instantiate the thread data
threadData data = new threadData();
data.i = i;
data.taskFunction = taskImplementation;
// Start the thread with the generated threadData object
this.threads[threadId].Start(data);
}
/// <summary>
/// Parallelization of a for-loop.
/// Runs the for loop on all available threads.
/// </summary>
/// <param name='start'>
/// The start i-value.
/// </param>
/// <param name='end'>
/// The end i-value
/// </param>
/// <param name='step'>
/// The step value (will get added to i after each execution)
/// </param>
/// <param name='taskImplementation'>
/// The task delegate implementation / lambda function.
/// </param>
public void For(int start, int end, int step, taskFor taskImplementation)
{
// Iterate through all "packs" of tasks
for (int i = start; i == end; i += step)
{
this.startThread(i, taskImplementation);
}
// Wait for all threads to be ready
while (this.threadsRunning())
{
Thread.Sleep(10);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Starts the for function with the cpu core count as thread count.
/// </summary>
public static void AutoFor(int start, int end, int step, taskFor taskImplementation)
{
Parallel.For(SystemInfo.processorCount, start, end, step, taskImplementation);
}
/// <summary>
/// Shortcut for instantiating the parallel class and executing the for-loop
/// </summary>
/// <param name="start"></param>
/// <param name="end"></param>
/// <param name="step"></param>
/// <param name="taskImplementation"></param>
public static void For(int threadCount, int start, int end, int step, taskFor taskImplementation)
{
Parallel tmp = new Parallel(threadCount);
tmp.For(start, end, step, taskImplementation);
}