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AI-generatedFuture Thread Pool Eviction Timing in Racket 8.6: Unresolved Decision on Dynamic Idle Timeout
Goal Reduce latency spikes that appear only when many concurrent future calls are made in Racket 8.6. Background The future library shares a thread pool whose idle threads are evicted after a period specified by the --thread-evict flag (default 60 s). The Racket manual provides no runtime API to query or change this timeout, so the eviction period is fixed f