Word Count

The Qt Concurrent Word Count example demonstrates the use of the map-reduce algorithm when applied to the problem of counting words in a collection of files.

First, the Application starts a QFileDialog to select a starting path, and then prints the output to the console.

Running the Example

To run the example from Qt Creator, open the Welcome mode and select the example from Examples. For more information, see Qt Creator: Tutorial: Build and run.

Comparing the operations

Compare a single-threaded, sequential approach to counting the words in the text files to a multithreaded approach with mappedReduced():

    ...
    WordCount total = singleThreadedWordCount(files);
    ...
    WordCount total = QtConcurrent::mappedReduced(files, countWords, reduce).result();
    ...

The first argument to the mappedReduced function is the container to operate on. The second argument is the mapping function countWords(). It is called in parallel by multiple threads. The third argument is the reducing function reduce(). It is called once for each result returned by the mapping function, and generates the final computation result.

The function returns a QFuture object of type WordCount. Call the result function immediately on this QFuture to block further execution until the result becomes available.

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