Question

Would there a more elegant way of writing the following syntax?

        Thread t0 = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(doWork));         t0.Start('someVal');         t0.Join();          Thread t1 = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(doWork));         t1.Start('someDiffVal');         t1.Join(); 

Presuming we want to pass 20 different values, what would the best way of setting this up be? Looping through and joining at the end?

If a new thread isn’t instantiated (like below), it errors that the thread can’t be restarted. For example:

        Thread t1 = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(doWork));         t1.Start('someVal');         t1.Start('someDiffVal'); 

Answer 1

Why would you start a thread and then join against it immediately?

I’d normally do something like this:

List<Thread> threads = new List<Thread>();  foreach (string item in items) {     string copy = item; // Important due to variable capture     ThreadStart ts = () => DoWork(copy); // Strongly typed :)     Thread t = new Thread(ts);     t.Start();     threads.Add(t); }  foreach (Thread t in threads) {     t.Join(); }