green thread

English

Etymology

First used in an early version of the Java programming language (1997–2000).

Noun

green thread (plural green threads)

  1. (computing) A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.
    • 2024, Carl Fredrik Samson, Asynchronous Programming in Rust […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 54:
      This is an example of M:N threading. Many tasks can run concurrently on one OS thread. Fibers and green threads are often referred to as stackful coroutines.

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