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Comment by ackfoobar

18 hours ago

>> Preemptive scheduling plus M:N mapping

AFAIK, in the current implementation, Java's virtual threads yields only when they block (cooperative). But the spec allows a JVM to implement them as preemptive.

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gf000  12 hours ago

Well, they do only yield on block and whatnot, but that's very much different from adding manual async/await keywords, I would say.

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