CompletableFuture.defaultExecutor()

[August Nagro]

Hi Ben, virtual threads by default use their own FJP, which uses a
different execution mode then the common pool.

Is Caffeine Cache the use case in mind here?

On Wed, May 18, 2022, 4:48 AM Ben Manes <ben.manes at gmail.com> wrote:

> The default executor for asynchronous tasks is either
> ForkJoinPool.commonPool() or one that creates a new platform thread per
> task if the JVM is restricted to a single logical cpu. Since
> CompletableFuture is commonly used with I/O, it is easy to accidentally
> block all of the common pool's threads. In the future, is this default
> likely to change to use virtual threads?
>
> Cheers.
>