Spring Office Hours: Episode 42 - Virtual Threads
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Project Loom: A Collection of JEPPs
Project loom is a collection of JEPPs, which are how new features get into the JDK. It's not just virtual threads; it also includes structured concurrency and scoped values. Virtual threads have been there as a preview sinceJDK 19 but they're only available for apps written in Java 19 or above. They use the heap for the stack so this has potential implications for garbage collection. The important thing is it's no longer linked to an OS thread.
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