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It's not the same. The earliest JVMs weren't really thread safe at all but machines were single core so it didn't matter, you could just cooperatively multi-tas

It's not the same. The earliest JVMs weren't really thread safe at all but machines were single core so it didn't matter, you could just cooperatively multi-task. Later HotSpot became thread safe (and fast - a rare achievement), so started using real OS threads so it could go multi-core. Virtual threads are M:N threading. There are multiple native threads so you can exploit all the cores, and also user-space runtime managed stacks so you can pack way more threads into a process.

jjav 3y ago
> The earliest JVMs weren't really thread safe at all but machines were single core so it didn't matter, you could just cooperatively multi-task. In the 90s we didn't have multiple cores but we had multiple CPUs. I started using java in '96 on a 2 CPU SPARC and the lack of real thread support was limiting. When green threads was dropped in favor of real (OS) thread support there was much rejoicing. I worked primarily in server performance back in those days. > Virtual threads are M:N threading. Solaris had M:N threads early on but it also was dropped.