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Re:Evolving Scala by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:59AM (#43483623)
> Now even Java has cheap threads

If by "cheap threads" you mean M-on-N threads a.k.a. fibers/green threads, Java had that on Solaris well before Go.

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Re:Evolving Scala by gf000 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:11PM (#43484408)
That's not even remotely the same thing as the current virtual threads, that automagically turn (many kind of) blocking IO into non-blocking.
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Re:Evolving Scala by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @01:29PM (#43484580)
If "automagically" means "the way Golang does it" then that's kinda the whole point of M:N threads/fibers.
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Re:Evolving Scala by gf000 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @02:09PM (#43485031)
My point was that green threads are not at all the same as virtual threads.
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