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Re:Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of C... by sys_64738 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:36PM (#35546455)
What are these things? It sounds like it is a time-sliced sharing that offers only concurrency and not parallelism. In other words, it's a userland construct and not a kernel thread. Sounds more like GO coroutines but do we really need another name for them?
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Re:Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of C... by za3faran on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:40PM (#35546509)
Already responded to here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537890
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