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Re:Implementing, Abstracting and Benchmarking Lightweight Th... by pron on Thursday February 06, 2014 @03:58PM (#7192892)
In theory? Absolutely none. But Quasar is here today (and also has an excellent actor system, a nice Clojure API and more).
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Re:Implementing, Abstracting and Benchmarking Lightweight Th... by justinsb on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:16PM (#7192992)
Well, I appreciate the honesty!

I'm excited by the idea that threads are going to be "the right way", once these improvements make it out of the 'plex.

I also like that I can get a similar API today with Quasar :-)

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Re:Implementing, Abstracting and Benchmarking Lightweight Th... by pron on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:21PM (#7193020)
Just to clarify: it's not that easy. The syscalls are the first step, and then you'll need a scheduler. Once you have those two, you still need new synchronization mechanisms and APIs.

Quasar doesn't just provide lightweight threads. It has rich libraries that help you make the best of them.

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Re:Implementing, Abstracting and Benchmarking Lightweight Th... by justinsb on Thursday February 06, 2014 @04:38PM (#7193123)
Yes, I'm thinking of the big picture. Might be more like Java 12 than Java 9... Or Quasar today!
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