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By long running I just meant anything that was not fast compute. I was more focused on finding the reference link so I agree my wording wasn’t clear.

Go started without preemption and added it later. The Java team has indicated a similar path, so we might see that tackled in the future. I think they could do that using safe points or JEP 312‘s handshakes, so it’s not infeasible.

For file io they wanted to explore io_ring and they might need to add a loom friendly resolver for JEP 418. There is just so much left, like scalable timers, that I think it’s going to be a long time until VTs will be a good default choice.




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