the future thread pool is unbounded (it uses the same thread pool as send-off).

I have a library for composing async tasks like futures:
https://github.com/hiredman/die-geister

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Illim <illminou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a clojure beginner and from the future api , the only way I found
> to create a future from another is to block the resulting future's
> thread with 'deref'. I'm a little bit afraid of exhausting my thread
> pool.
> For example:
> (def x (future 1))
> (def y (future (+ 1 @x)))
> y will block and consume a thread during x computation.
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