ExecutorService vs ThreadPoolExecutor using LinkedBlockingQueue

Question

I am working on a multithreaded project in which I need to spawn multiple threads to measure the end to end performance of my client code, as I\'m doing Load and Performance

Answer 1

Here is the source of Executors.newFixedThreadPool:

 public static ExecutorService newFixedThreadPool(int nThreads) {
    return new ThreadPoolExecutor(nThreads, nThreads,
                                  0L, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS,
                                  new LinkedBlockingQueue());
}

It internally uses ThreadPoolExecutor class with default configuration as you can see above. Now there are scenarios where default configuration is not suitable say instead of LinkedBlockingQueue a priority queue needs to be used etc. In such cases caller can directly work on underlying ThreadPoolExecutor by instantiating it and passing desired configuration to it.