What the difference between message queues and thread pools?
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The real question would be whether there’s any similarity between the two. A message queue is a data structure for holding messages from the time they’re sent until the time the receiver retrieves and acts on them.
A thread pool is a pool of threads that do some sort of processing. A thread pool will normally have some sort of thread-safe queue attached to allow you to queue up jobs to be done. This would more often be called something like a “task queue” than a message queue, though it will normally contain some sort of messages that describe the tasks that need to be done.