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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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