How to read files in multithreaded mode?

Question

I currently have a program that reads file (very huge) in single threaded mode and creates search index but it takes too long to index in single threaded environment.

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Answer 1

See this thread - if your files are all on the same disk then you can't do better than reading them with a single thread, although it may be possible to process the files with multiple threads once you've read them into main memory.