Thread Pool

public class WorkQueue {
    private final int nThreads;
    private final PoolWorker[] threads;
    private final LinkedList queue;
    
    public WorkQueue(int nThreads) {
        this.nThreads = nThreads;
        queue = new LinkedList();
        threads = new PoolWorker[nThreads];
        for (int i=0; i<nThreads; i++) {
            threads[i] = new PoolWorker();
            threads[i].start();
        }
    }
    
    public void execute(Runnable r) {
        synchronized(queue) {
            queue.addLast(r);
            queue.notify();
        }
    }
    
    private class PoolWorker extends Thread {
        public void run() {
            Runnable r;
            while (true) {
                synchronized(queue) {
                    while (queue.isEmpty()) {
                        try
                        {
                            queue.wait();
                        }
                        catch (InterruptedException ignored)
                        {
                        }
                    }
                    r = (Runnable) queue.removeFirst();
                }
                // If we don't catch RuntimeException, 
                // the pool could leak threads
                try {
                    r.run();
                }
                catch (RuntimeException e) {
                    // You might want to log something here
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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