Hi,
-1, because:
* Thread creation _is_ expensive (mostly due to the
large memory requirements)
* Without a pool of thread, limiting the number
of threads actually created is a problem, and
this number should definitely be limited.
Thus keep the pools.
Regards
Felix
Jukka Zitting schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> In JCR-390 we added support for text extraction in background threads.
> This was done with the PooledTextExtractor class that maintains a pool
> of threads for this purpose. Do we need that pool, or could we simply
> just start a new thread for each new extraction task? That would
> simplify the indexing code.
>
> The time to start a new thread is probably minimal compared to that of
> parsing a document. And when you're parsing a lot of large documents,
> much of the time is spent waiting for IO so the more concurrent
> threads you have the better throughput you get.
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
