Virtual thread: Difference between revisions

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* '''Virtual Threads can be allocated quickly'''

** Because allocating a virtual thread is akin to allocate memory structures, they can be allocated very quickly, like 600,000 per second. This is not possible for OS threads that would crash the host long before this rate

** The quicker ramp-up lessens the need for thread-pools of pre-launchinglaunched threads to cater for sudden increases in traffic

* '''Virtual threads share memory map like OS threads'''