CachedDaemonThreadFactory COMMON_POOL

[kromar777]

CachedDaemonThreadFactory COMMON_POOL

[RalphSteinhagen]

Hi @kromar777 thanks for your interest in ChartFX and bringing this up.

We use those daemon threads to offload heavy lifting like point-reduction algorithms and other similar DataSet operations to keep the UI FX responsive. The threads are usually limited to the number of cores because, unless you are IO-bound, having more parallel tasks than CPU cores causes the threads to compete for and slow down the same CPU resource.

I get where you’re coming from with the pool re-use idea; it’s neat. Honestly, we haven’t prioritized customizing it since it hasn’t been a pressing issue for our use cases (yet).

We're all ears for good ideas and open to PRs (Pull Requests). What kind of enhancements do you have in mind?

Thanks for sparking the conversation! 👍