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anonymousDan on July 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java Virtual Threads: A Case Study

Does Java's implementation of virtual threads perform any kind of work stealing when a particular physical thread has no virtual threads to run (e.g. they are all blocked on I/O)?

mike_hearn on July 17, 2024 [–]

It does. They get scheduled onto the ForkJoinPool which is a work stealing pool.

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