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Re:The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool by commandlinefan on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:13PM (#19264794)
> Like, really badly: the strawman

Maybe so, but I've seen this pattern a LOT.

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Re:The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool by mcqueenjordan on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:23PM (#19267493)
Fair point. I haven't seen it much, but I don't doubt that it happens.

I just wanted to emphasize the point, which wasn't clear, that ThreadPools aren't bad, but rather that bad uses of them are bad.

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