Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 in September 2023 to make it easier to write and maintain concurrent applications, has suffered from a “pinning” issue that arises with ...

Java virtual threads are much lighter and more efficient than traditional operating system threads, and excel at handling blocking operations. Unfortunately, despite their advantages, virtual threads ...

Java could gain a capability for sharing immutable data across threads, based on a plan now under consideration in the OpenJDK realm. An OpenJDK proposal for extent-local variables, currently an ...

JDK 21's virtual threads are a major leap forward for Java's concurrency model. Previously, Java relied on OS threads, which were resource-heavy, limiting how many threads could run concurrently.