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ThreadPool

This class implements a thread-pool.
It buffers all the work items, which regrettably have to be classes, and reuses them. It only cleans them up at shutdown.

The reason we wrote this although there is the Parallels library is because unlike with that library you can enqueue different workers in a single thread-pool. It takes every function that is wrapped as a workload regardless of how many parameters or return-values it has. You can mix them all together and start the pool.

You may wait for the whole pool to finis (join) or on every single work-item.

Example

threadPool = new ThreadPool(Environment.ProcessorCount, "testWorker");

List<IWorkItemState<bool>> wirs = new List<IWorkItemState<bool>>();

for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
{
	IWorkItemState<bool> wir = threadPool.EnqueueWorkItem(new Func<bool, bool>(Not), true);
	wirs.Add(wir);
}

threadPool.WaitForEveryWorkerIdle();
threadPool.ShutDown();

You may as well pause and resume whenever you please.

threadPool = new ThreadPool(Environment.ProcessorCount, "testWorker");

List<IWorkItemState> wirs = new List<IWorkItemState>();

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
	if (i == 5)
	{
		threadPool.Sleep();
		Thread.Sleep(2000);
	}
	IWorkItemState wir = threadPool.EnqueueWorkItem(WriteToConsole, "test " + (i + 1));
	wirs.Add(wir);
}

threadPool.Wakeup();

foreach (IWorkItemState workItemState in wirs)
{
	workItemState.Result();
	workItemState.Dispose();
}

threadPool.ShutDown();

Take a look at the included unit-tests for further guidance.