Dividing loop iterations among threads

Question

I recently wrote a small number-crunching program that basically loops over an N-dimensional grid and performs some calculation at each point.

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Answer 1

I would do something like this:

void HistogramThread(int i1, Action HandleResults)
{
    int[] histogram = new int[HistogramSize];

    for (int i2 = 0; i2 < N; i2++)
       for (int i3 = 0; i3 < N; i3++)
          for (int i4 = 0; i4 < N; i4++)
             histogram[bin_index(i1, i2, i3, i4)] += 1;

    HandleResults(histogram);
}

int[] CalculateHistogram()
{
    int[] histogram = new int[HistogramSize];

    ThreadPool pool; // I don't know syntax off the top of my head
    for (int i1=0; i1

This way you don't need to share any memory, until the end.