Multi-threading

functions to provide support for multi-threading More...

Modules
	Thread-safe image looping
	Basic multi-threading primitives
	basic functions and classes to allow multi-threading
	Thread-safe queue
	Functionality for thread-safe parallel processing of queued items.

Detailed Description

functions to provide support for multi-threading

These functions and associated classes provide a simple interface for multi-threading in MRtrix applications. Most of the low-level funtionality relies on the C++11 std::thread API. MRtrix3 builds on this to add three convenience methods:

• Thread::run() to launch one or more worker threads;
• ThreadedLoop() to run an operation over all voxels in one or more images;
• Thread::run_queue() to run a pipeline, with one or more threads feeding data through to one or more other threads (potentially with further stages in the pipeline).

These APIs provide simple and convenient ways of multi-threading, and should be sufficient for the vast majority of applications.

Please refer to the Writing multi-threaded applications page for an overview of multi-threading in MRtrix.

See also

Thread::run()

threaded_loop

Thread::run_queue()