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Comment by otabdeveloper4

10 days ago

> Now language runtimes prefer “green threads” for portability and performance

"Green threads" only exist in crappy interpreted languages, and only because they have stop-the-world single-threaded garbage collection.

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atombender  10 days ago

Go and Java both have green threads, and are not interpreted nor limited to single threaded GC.

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