Executor seems like a clean abstraction. When would you want to use Thread directly rather than rely on the more robust executor?
Executor seems like a clean abstraction. When would you want to use Thread directly
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Executor seems like a clean abstraction. When would you want to use Thread directly rather than rely on the more robust executor?
To give some history, Executors were only added as part of the java standard in Java 1.5. So in some ways Executors can be seen as a new better abstraction for dealing with Runnable tasks.
A bit of an over-simplification coming… – Executors are threads done right so use them in preference.