Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for the Java Virtual Machine

Project Loom’s mission is to make it easier to write, debug, profile and maintain concurrent applications meeting today’s requirements. Threads, provided by Java from its first day, are a natural and convenient concurrency construct (putting aside the sep… Read more

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This section gives a short history of Java’s evolution. It is based on various published sources (most importantly an interview with Java’s creators in the July 1995 issue of Sun World’s online magazine). Java goes back to 1991, when a group of Sun engine... (more…)

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