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Your second link is from 2018, and would indeed need a case study for Loom. For example the concerns about thread-local storage are addressed, and the base overhead is understood (as in: don't use them for CPU-bound worloads, they'll fare better on IO-bound workloads)

Also, the cases studies in that paper are platform-level when I believe the language has to be involved; as a runtime has more information when resuming to a suspension point. The paper even acknowledges Go as a successful implementation although with C-compatibility call overhead caveat. In the Java world, the vast majority of programs stay in the Java language. So I'd say that paper would list Loom as the best implementation (And maybe revise their recommendation. It'd be useful to have that author's opinion of Loom in 2023)



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