Java中thread的start()和run()的区别：

1.start（）方法来启动线程，真正实现了多线程运行，这时无需等待run方法体代码执行完毕而直接继续执行下面的代码：

通过调用Thread类的start()方法来启动一个线程，
这时此线程是处于就绪状态，
并没有运行。
然后通过此Thread类调用方法run()来完成其运行操作的，
这里方法run()称为线程体，
它包含了要执行的这个线程的内容，
Run方法运行结束，
此线程终止，
而CPU再运行其它线程，

 

2.run（）方法当作普通方法的方式调用，程序还是要顺序执行，还是要等待run方法体执行完毕后才可继续执行下面的代码：

而如果直接用Run方法，
这只是调用一个方法而已，
程序中依然只有主线程--这一个线程，
其程序执行路径还是只有一条，
这样就没有达到写线程的目的。

 

举例说明一下：

记住：线程就是为了更好地利用CPU，
提高程序运行速率的！

public class TestThread1{
public static void main(String[] args){
Runner1 r=new Runner1();
//r.run();//这是方法调用，而不是开启一个线程
Thread t=new Thread(r);//调用了Thread(Runnable target)方法。且父类对象变量指向子类对象。
t.start();

for(int i=0;i<100;i++){
System.out.println("进入Main Thread运行状态");
System.out.println(i);
}
}
}
class Runner1 implements Runnable{ //实现了这个接口，jdk就知道这个类是一个线程
public void run(){

for(int i=0;i<100;i++){
System.out.println("进入Runner1运行状态");
System.out.println(i);
}
}
}

同时摘取一段外文网站论坛上的解释：
Why do we need start() method in Thread class? In Java API description for Thread class is written : "Java Virtual Machine calls the run method of this thread..".

Couldn't we call method run() ourselves, without doing double call: first we call start() method which calls run() method? What is a meaning to do things such complicate?



 

There is some very small but important difference between using start() and run() methods. Look at two examples below:

Example one:

Code:

Thread one = new Thread();
Thread two = new Thread();
one.run();
two.run();

Example two:

Code:

Thread one = new Thread();
Thread two = new Thread();
one.start();
two.start();

The result of running examples will be different.

In Example one the threads will run sequentially: first, thread number one runs, when it exits the thread number two starts.

In Example two both threads start and run simultaneously.

Conclusion: the start() method call run() method asynchronously (does not wait for any result, just fire up an action), while we run run() method synchronously - we wait when it quits and only then we can run the next line of our code.