Virtual thread: Difference between revisions

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* '''Virtual threads offer parallelism like OS threads'''

** Parallelism means that multiple instructions are executed truly at the same time which typically leads to a magnitude of faster performance

** TheThis is different from the simpler concurrency, in which a single resourceexecution isunit executes multiple threads shared in small time increments. soThe thatsharing itmakes appearseach alwaysthread available,appear to be continuously executing. While concurrency is easier to implement and program, butit do not offer any gains in performance

== Underlying reasons ==