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Does CompletableFuture create its own thread pool? Which pool does it use by default?
Tests whether you know CompletableFuture's async methods without an explicit Executor fall back to ForkJoinPool.commonPool() by default, which is shared process-wide and easily starved by blocking work -- a key reason to always pass a dedicated Executor in production code.
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