I was going to comment that as well. Futures, Managed Executors, tasks, runnables, are more higher level structures that are better suited for general use. Thos

I was going to comment that as well. Futures, Managed Executors, tasks, runnables, are more higher level structures that are better suited for general use. Those constructs are often implemented using threads though, so it's worth knowing what's happening one layer below the abstraction layer.