Viktor Klang • 3/1/2016

Futures in Scala 2.12 (part 7): ExecutionContext and BlockContext improvements

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This technical article details specific enhancements to the scala.concurrent.Future API in Scala 2.12. It covers the deprecation of ExecutionContext.prepare, the addition of BlockContext.defaultBlockContext for library implementers, and hardening of ExecutionContext.global to prevent unbounded thread growth and OutOfMemoryErrors when using blocking{} constructs.

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