Package net.imglib2.parallel

Interface TaskExecutor

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultTaskExecutor, SequentialTaskExecutor

public interface TaskExecutor
extends AutoCloseable

TaskExecutor is recommended to be used in image processing algorithms instead of ExecutorService. It's simpler to use, and allows single threaded execution.

 

 // Example of a multi threaded method that fills an image with ones.
 public void fillWithOnes( RandomAccessibleInterval< IntType > image, TaskExecutor taskExecutor )
 {
     int numTasks = taskExecutor.suggestNumberOfTasks();
     List< RandomAccessibleInterval< IntType > > chunks = splitImageIntoChunks( image, numTasks );

     // The TaskExecutor executes the forEach method in multi threads, if requested.
     taskExecutor.forEach( chunks, chunk -> {
         for ( IntType pixel : Views.iterable( chunk ) )
             pixel.setOne();
     } );
 }

 // The method can be run multi threaded or single threaded
 fillWithOnes( image, TaskExecutors.singleThreaded() );
 fillWithOnes( image, TaskExecutors.multiThreaded() );
 
 

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	close()
<T> void	forEach(List<? extends T> parameters, Consumer<? super T> task)	Like runAll(List) but - instead of a list of tasks - it takes a list of parameters and a function that is called for each of the parameters.
<T, R> List<R>	forEachApply(List<? extends T> parameters, Function<? super T,? extends R> task)	Like forEach(List, Consumer) but collects the results.
ExecutorService	getExecutorService()	Get the underlying ExecutorService.
int	getParallelism()	Get the number of threads that are used for execution.
void	runAll(List<Runnable> tasks)	This method will execute the given list of tasks.
int	suggestNumberOfTasks()	If there is a big task that could be split into sub tasks for parallelization, this method gives you a reasonable number of sub tasks.

Method Details

getParallelism

int getParallelism()

Get the number of threads that are used for execution.

suggestNumberOfTasks

int suggestNumberOfTasks()

If there is a big task that could be split into sub tasks for parallelization, this method gives you a reasonable number of sub tasks.

A single threaded TaskExecutor will return 1. A multi threaded TaskExecutor will usually return 4 times the number of threads.

runAll

void runAll(List<Runnable> tasks)

This method will execute the given list of tasks. A single threaded TaskExecutor will execute the tasks one after the other. A multi threaded TaskExecutor will distribute the tasks to the threads. The method blocks until all tasks are completed.

forEach

<T> void forEach(List<? extends T> parameters,
 Consumer<? super T> task)

Like runAll(List) but - instead of a list of tasks - it takes a list of parameters and a function that is called for each of the parameters.

forEachApply

<T,
R> List<R> forEachApply(List<? extends T> parameters,
 Function<? super T,? extends R> task)

Like forEach(List, Consumer) but collects the results.

getExecutorService

ExecutorService getExecutorService()

Get the underlying ExecutorService. This is not always a fully functional ExecutorService: Especially the methods ExecutorService.shutdown() and ExecutorService.awaitTermination(long, TimeUnit) must not be used.

close

void close()

Specified by:

close in interface AutoCloseable