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Lightweight threads for Java, with message passing, nio, http and scheduling support.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2010-07-06 · latest 2026-09-04

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  1. Ah, I had virtual threads in Java 8 back in the day. I believe it still works. Check Kilim: https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by sriram_malhar · 2026-09-04 · in Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom
  2. …Java quite readily because I knew that the missing piece was a continuations feature in Java. See https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by sriram_malhar · 2024-11-17 · in SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010)
  3. …a maintainer) and quasar (though that project is on hold while the author works on project loom) https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by nqzero · 2019-01-26 · in Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K concurrent connections on
  4. FWIW: https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by Manishearth · 2016-02-18 · in Go 1.6 is Released
  5. i'm using java fibers ( https://github.com/kilim/kilim ) for a database for anyone interested in using fibers inside a java webapp, i just wrote up a quick survey of async java servlet performance: http://blog.nqzero.com/2016/01/asynchronou…
    comment by nqzero · 2016-01-15 · in Coroutines and Fibers: Why and When
  6. at least in java (i'm using https://github.com/kilim/kilim , but quasar appears to be similar), only methods that yield need to be aware
    comment by nqzero · 2016-01-15 · in Coroutines and Fibers: Why and When
  7. You have librarires such as https://github.com/kilim/kilim or http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/ for Java lightweight threads
    comment by eranation · 2014-05-30 · in Java 8 Features
  8. For those who haven't seen Kilim: http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/ https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by scotth · 2014-04-14 · in Tell HN: Lois - Golang like channels for Java
  9. …promotes failure-independence an exception in one actor cannot fatally affect another. https://github.com/kilim/kilim/raw/master/docs/kilim_ecoop08... I personally am not a fan of prohibiting people from doing things (blame Larry Wall,…
    comment by rektide · 2013-05-02 · in Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM
  10. …is 3x faster than Erlang (cur- rently the gold standard for concurrency-oriented programming). from https://github.com/kilim/kilim/raw/master/docs/kilim_ecoop08... Kilim: https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by rektide · 2013-05-02 · in Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM
  11. https://github.com/kilim/kilim
    comment by eternalban · 2012-10-27 · in Rob Pike: Go at Google
  12. …cool. It uses Kilim, the lightweight threading library for java, that I hadn't heard of before: http://github.com/kilim/kilim I have been looking for something similar for C but have not been able to find anything.
    comment by papaf · 2010-07-06 · in Erlang on the JVM