Virtual Thread Deep Dive - Inside Java Newscast #23

Now that Project Loom's JEP 425 officially proposes virtual threads, it's time to take a close look at them: scheduling and memory management; mounting, unmounting, capturing, and pinning; observability; and what you can do for optimal scalability - this episode has (almost) everything on virtual threads!

Show Notes

• State of Project Loom with Ron Pressler

Why virtual threads?

• Ron Pressler on parallelism and concurrency

• Inside Java Newscast #17 on structured concurrency

Virtual thread details:

• JEP 353

• JEP 373

• Inside Java Newscast #9 on JFR

• JEP draft on scope locals

Image credits:

• sleepy emoji by OpenMoji, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

• Virtual Memory by multiple Wikipedia contributors, mostly "Ehamberg", licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

• the resulting diagram ("Virtual Threads") is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Additional Resources

• dev.java: the destination for Java developers

• OpenJDK: the place to collaborate on the Java Platform and related projects

• Oracle Java: the #1 programming language and development platform

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