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What are the different types of thread pools in Java?

Tests whether you know the trade-offs behind each Executors factory method -- fixed (bounded, steady load), cached (unbounded, bursty short tasks), single-threaded (serialized execution), and scheduled (delayed/periodic tasks) -- rather than treating them as interchangeable.

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