>If you want to make 300,000 threads in Lua or Go, go right ahead, but if you port that application to Java you're going to have a bad time. In Java itself per

>If you want to make 300,000 threads in Lua or Go, go right ahead, but if you port that application to Java you're going to have a bad time. In Java itself perhaps, but with Java you can use lightweight threads via Quasar. http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/05/02/quasar-pulsar/ http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2013/05/02/quasar-pulsar/ "a single machine can handle millions of them"