Parallelization

[emipeanz]

This is an exciting one. CHANGES:

• Algorithm is no longer an abstract class, it is an interface that is implemented by boundable algorithm
• There are constructor changes all over the place. This is more prominent when creating algorithms as processors has been taken out of constructor.

ADDITIONS:

• When creating more algorithms, they need to extend BoundableAlgorithm. This is so they can be run on threads.
• AlgorithmFactory is just a simple interface so that algorithms can be created by TieredAlgorithm
• TieredAlgorithm is where all the threading black magic happens. Any algorithm extending BoundableAlgorithm can be used here to be parallelized
• MultiAlgorithmCommunicator is a class that is used by BoundableAlgorithm and TieredAlgorithm to talk to each other. Which is especially important when we want the threads to all access the same global schedule object.
• A couple of classes for multithreaded integration tests. Some classes relate to a custom annotation allowing us to run the same test multiple times (just to be doubly sure threading all works as expected)

[nathan-cairns]

looks gud tho

[Buster-Darragh-Major]

When will the wiki for this be up