Multiple Threads and Synchronization

[yolo]

Hi Yalll!
I have an assignment to use multiple threads and single threads to see the difference in processing time.
But it seems like my single thread process time is faster or about the same as using multiple threads (even with the larger num of Order)
edited th3 code. thanks for xorrecting my misunderstanding

[doWhile]

You don't define what the Worker class is...but

Worker wor= new Worker (takesInFile, MapofOrders);

Are you actually dividing up the work? The above line suggests that each worker is performing all the work, as opposed to splitting up the work between Threads.

[yolo]

no each worker takes in one file to read ....
I could mofiify it to:

for (int i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
String filename = baseFileName + i + "txt;
Worker wor= new Worker (fileName, MapofOrders);
}

sorry for not making it clear

[doWhile]

How do you define 'faster'? Are you profiling with System.currentTimeMillis?

All of these questions could be better answered if you provide an SSCCE demonstrating the two scenarios

[yolo]

Results:
For about 200 orders:
It takes Processing time (msec): 21338 for multipleThreads
and It take Processing time (msec): 21261 if I don't use multipleThreads

[doWhile]

200 Orders == 200 Threads...yikes. You should realize that more is not necessarily better. You only have a small number of processors and each thread can only work at one time on one of those processors - 200 Threads means you have overhead of distributing the work amongst a small number of processors, requiring a lot of overhead acquiring locks and such and not necessarily resulting in a performance gain. I would recommend starting small - first splitting a list of say 200 into 2 lists of 100, and have 2 threads operate on those two lists. I would also recommend adding some println's in there so you know at runtime that you are in single or multi-thread mode.

[DarrylBurke]

Moved from new to Java

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