Difference between a virtual and traditional thread in Java
Today I learned that Java has virtual threads introduced in Project Loom. When I read about virtual threads, I instantly thought about go routines, which (in most basic terms) are “lightweight threads” that utilize less of the CPU’s resources than a traditional thread. A traditional thread in Java: is managed/scheduled by the OS is costly to create, so things like thread pools are introduced for realloc/dealloc of threads as needed (ie....