layout	title	folder	permalink	categories	tags
pattern	Thread Pool	thread-pool	/patterns/thread-pool/	Concurrency	Java Difficulty-Intermediate Performance

Intent

It is often the case that tasks to be executed are short-lived and the number of tasks is large. Creating a new thread for each task would make the system spend more time creating and destroying the threads than executing the actual tasks. Thread Pool solves this problem by reusing existing threads and eliminating the latency of creating new threads.

Applicability

Use the Thread Pool pattern when

• you have a large number of short-lived tasks to be executed in parallel