Github user srowen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9054#issuecomment-147104530 The cached thread pool does not create threads if threads are available: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Executors.html#newCachedThreadPool() Why do you think ForkJoinPool is better? http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ForkJoinPool.html It is for contexts where threads create lots of small tasks. That's not the case here.
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