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		technomancy on Feb 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM > erlangs stability is derived from the semantics of the language and that should transfer to the jvm fine. From what I understand Erlang depends heavily on green threads, which are no longer available on the JVM.

FooBarWidget on Feb 10, 2011 [–]

You can implement green threads yourself.

wmf on Feb 10, 2011 | [–]

How would you do that in Java given that you can't reify the stack?

drkrab on Feb 13, 2011 | | [–]

Erjang is using Kilim (http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/) which does bytecode rewriting to support coroutines (kind of green threads) on top of JVM. With Java 8, we're rumored to get coroutines in the JVM.

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