They do: it’s called threads. It’s the OS context switch that makes process thre...

garmaine on July 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Continuations Are Coming to Java

They do: it’s called threads.

It’s the OS context switch that makes process threads so much more costly than user-scheduled fibers. You cannot involve the OS if you want efficiency.

Otherwise it is the same exact thing.