In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar.  Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more.

Read a transcript of this interview:  https://bit.ly/34duS7G

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Ron Pressler on Java Project Loom, Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency

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