Threads and Virtual Threads: Demystifying the World of Concurrency In Modern Times
Due to their ability to enable parallelism and asynchronous execution, threads have an essential role in efficiently utilizing multi-core processors. Without them, handling concurrent tasks in modern applications like real-time inference in IoT or Asynchronous I/O in AI/ML would neither be feasible nor imaginable. The arrival of virtual threads has further grown such possibilities by eliminating the sole dependency on operating system threads.