Java Language Tutorial => Basic Multithreading

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If you have many tasks to execute, and all these tasks are not dependent of the result of the precedent ones, you can use Multithreading for your computer to do all this tasks at the same time using more processors if your computer can. This can make your program execution faster if you have some big independent tasks.

class CountAndPrint implements Runnable {

    private final String name;

    CountAndPrint(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    /** This is what a CountAndPrint will do */
    @Override
    public void run() {
        for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
            System.out.println(this.name + ": " + i);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Launching 4 parallel threads
        for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
            // `start` method will call the `run` method 
            // of CountAndPrint in another thread
            new Thread(new CountAndPrint("Instance " + i)).start();
        }

        // Doing some others tasks in the main Thread
        for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
            System.out.println("Main: " + i);
        }
    }
}

The code of the run method of the various CountAndPrint instances will execute in non predictable order. A snippet of a sample execution might look like this:

Instance 4: 1
Instance 2: 1
Instance 4: 2
Instance 1: 1
Instance 1: 2
Main: 1
Instance 4: 3
Main: 2
Instance 3: 1
Instance 4: 4
...

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