How to “wait” a Thread in Android

You need the sleep method of the Thread class. public static void sleep (long time) Causes the thread which sent this message to sleep for the given interval of time (given in milliseconds). The precision is not guaranteed – the Thread may sleep more or less than requested. Parameters time The time to sleep in … Read more

OpenMP set_num_threads() is not working

Besides calling omp_get_num_threads() outside of the parallel region in your case, calling omp_set_num_threads() still doesn’t guarantee that the OpenMP runtime will use exactly the specified number of threads. omp_set_num_threads() is used to override the value of the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS and they both control the upper limit of the size of the thread team that … Read more

How can I wait for a thread to finish with .NET?

I can see five options available: 1. Thread.Join As with Mitch’s answer. But this will block your UI thread, however you get a Timeout built in for you. 2. Use a WaitHandle ManualResetEvent is a WaitHandle as jrista suggested. One thing to note is if you want to wait for multiple threads: WaitHandle.WaitAll() won’t work … Read more

How to use WPF Background Worker

Add using Declare Background Worker: Subscribe to events: Implement two methods: Run worker async whenever your need. Track progress (optional, but often useful)a) subscribe to ProgressChanged event and use ReportProgress(Int32) in DoWorkb) set worker.WorkerReportsProgress = true; (credits to @zagy)

Task vs Thread differences

Thread is a lower-level concept: if you’re directly starting a thread, you know it will be a separate thread, rather than executing on the thread pool etc. Task is more than just an abstraction of “where to run some code” though – it’s really just “the promise of a result in the future”. So as … Read more