Question

I’m trying to run a calculation in a new thread, I’m just not sure the correct way to do it. I’m not sure if I should use:

private Thread calcThread = new Thread(){
    @Override
    public void run(){
        calc();
    }
};

and then use calcThread.run() when I want to do the calculation or if I should do:

new Thread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
      calc();
    }
  }).start();

whenever I want to run my calculation.

Which is preferable, if either?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Do something like this

public class cal extends Thread {
    public void run(){
        calc();
    }
}

Just by creating object of this class like this

cal c = new cal();
c.start();

you can start your thread performing calculation wherever you want in the code.