[计算机软件及应用]ThreadPool.pdf

Thread Pooling CHAPTER 13 IN THIS CHAPTER • Benefits of Thread Pooling 308 • Considerations and Costs of Thread Pooling 308 • A Generic Thread Pool: ThreadPool 309 • A Specialized Worker Thread Pool: HttpServer 319 Techniques 308 PART II When design situations arise that could benefit by using many short-lived threads, thread pooling is a useful technique. Rather than create a brand new thread for each task, you can have one of the threads from the thread pool pulled out of the pool and assigned to the task. When the thread is finished with the task, it adds itself back to the pool and waits for another assignment. In this chapter, I present two examples that use thread pooling. One creates a pool of threads that can be generically used to run Runnable objects. The other creates a pool of threads for servicing requests that come into a simple Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server (a Web page server). Benefits of Thread Pooling Thread pooling saves the virtual machine the work of creating brand new threads for every short-lived task. In addition, it minimizes overhead associated with getting a thread started and cleaning it up after it dies. By creating a pool of threads, a single thread from the pool can be recycled over and over for different tasks. With the thread pooling technique, you can reduce response time because a thread is already constructed and started and is simply waiting for its next task. In the case of an HTTP server, an available thread in the pool can deliver each new file requested. Without pooling, a brand new thread would have t