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		chrisseaton on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Java's Project Loom to build more reliable d... > Right, but you'd still need to synchronize that with some concurrency primitives (like a mutex or semaphore) Why? If you know your thread won't be interleaved with any other until you a well-defined point, how's that different to using a mutex or semaphore?

MobiusHorizons on May 10, 2022 [–]

IIUC, Loom threads can be scheduled across multiple OS threads (much like go-routines), so there is (at least the possibility of) real concurrency going on.

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