Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine

Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by jgowdy on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @10:26PM (#15607356)

Async/await would be fantastic in Java. Unfortunately they don’t seem to be a fan.

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Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by pjmlp on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:52AM (#15609505)

From my experience in .NET with them, one issue I have with async/await vs direct use of TPL is how they infect the whole source code, if you want to properly use them.

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Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by Skinney on Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:40AM (#15609823)

Project Loom seems to be much better than async/await. Hopefully they manage to implement it.

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Re:Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtu... by xstartup on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:15PM (#15615249)

I think async/await is much higher level abstraction than a "fiber", so you can probably implement async/await on top of fibers.

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