Will Loom Protect Us from Temporal Robbery?

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" summary

Loom introduces virtual threads to the Java platform, replacing traditional heavyweight Threads with many lightweight, virtual ones to improve concurrency and performance. The talk covers structured concurrency, reactive/asynchronous programming models, actors, ScopeLocal (a replacement for ThreadLocal), StructuredExecutor, new synchronization models, code examples, and measured performance and JVM impacts.

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" chapters (6)

1. 0:00Loom introduction
2. 13:25Traditional thread limits
3. 28:33Virtual threads demo
4. 1:19:27Structured concurrency
5. 1:20:16Async app with Loom
6. 2:28:27Q&A

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