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26 lines
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layout: pattern
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title: Thread Pool
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folder: thread-pool
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permalink: /patterns/thread-pool/
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categories: Concurrency
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tags:
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- Java
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- Difficulty-Intermediate
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- Performance
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---
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## Intent
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It is often the case that tasks to be executed are short-lived and
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the number of tasks is large. Creating a new thread for each task would make
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the system spend more time creating and destroying the threads than executing
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the actual tasks. Thread Pool solves this problem by reusing existing threads
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and eliminating the latency of creating new threads.
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## Applicability
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Use the Thread Pool pattern when
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* you have a large number of short-lived tasks to be executed in parallel
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