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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by yawaramin on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:15PM (#19883509)
> Fibers are user-mode lightweight threads that allow synchronous (blocking) code to be efficiently scheduled, so that it performs as well as asynchronous code

Sounds a lot like Erlang BEAM processes.

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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by pron on Friday May 10, 2019 @09:28PM (#19883889)
Yep; or Go's goroutines. Except that the fibers are implemented and scheduled in the Java libraries; the VM only provides continuations.
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Re:IT Runs on Java 8 by mycall on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:11PM (#19884297)
How does it compare to Windows fibers?
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