green thread
nounEtymology First used in an early version of the Java programming language (1997–2000).
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.
- 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.2024, Carl Fredrik Samson, Asynchronous Programming in Rust […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 54: