Accelerating MATLAB Performance

383Explicit Parallelization by Other Means

.Net’s S yste m.T h re ad i ng.T h r e ad class

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is sealed (noninheritable), so we cannot

extend it as we did in Java. However, we can instantiate an internal Thread object within

our class and use it. Here is the corresponding C# source code:

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Threading;

namespace My

{

public class NetThread

{

string filename;

double[] doubleData;

Thread thread;

public NetThread(string filename, double[] data)

{

this.filename = filename;

this.doubleData = data;

thread = new Thread(this.run);

}

public void start()

{

thread.Start(); // note the capital S in Start()

}

private void run()

{

try

{

BinaryWriter out = new BinaryWriter( ...