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An update on the green thread experiment for .NET

by siwatanejo on 9/10/23, 3:18 PM with 12 comments

• by DylanSp on 9/10/23, 5:57 PM

  The Twitter post linked list links to this Github issue, which has the actual discussion: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398. Could we get the link changed to point there?

• by nullindividual on 9/10/23, 3:48 PM

  Since 'green threads' are never satisfactorily explained in the link:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread

• by mola on 9/10/23, 5:17 PM

  Very naive question, what's the reason platform threads can't be made as efficient as green threads? Is there a fundamental limitation here?