edu.stanford.nlp.util.concurrent

Interface ThreadsafeProcessor<I,O>

Type Parameters:

I - input type

O - output type

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArabicSegmenter, ParsingThreadsafeProcessor, SentenceAnnotator.AnnotatorProcessor

public interface ThreadsafeProcessor<I,O>

Objects that wish to use MulticoreWrapper for multicore support must implement this interface. Objects that implement this interface should, of course, be threadsafe.

Author:

Spence Green

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ThreadsafeProcessor<I,O>	newInstance() Return a new threadsafe instance.
O	process(I input) Set the input item that will be processed when a thread is allocated to this processor.

Method Detail

process

O process(I input)

Set the input item that will be processed when a thread is allocated to this processor.

Parameters:

input - the object to be processed

Returns:

the result of the processing

newInstance

ThreadsafeProcessor<I,O> newInstance()

Return a new threadsafe instance.