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		kitd on Oct 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you can have millions of goroutines but only t... Project Loom [1] is intended to provide green threads, or 'fibers', at the JVM level. There have been other projects like Quasar from ParallelUniverse [2] that retrofits them by processing the compiled bytecode to enable saving/restoring the IP & stack. [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm... [2] http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/

eternalban on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

Kilim [1] (afaik) was first in this space. (edit: just FYI)

[1]: http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/kilim_ecoop08.pdf

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