Virtual Thread vs NIO

[Florian Schmaus]

On 05/11/2022 12.41, kronos72it wrote:
> Hi, I am reading https://openjdk.org/jeps/425 
> <https://openjdk.org/jeps/425> with very interest and , perhaps I am at 
> beginning ,I have a question.
> In "Improving scalability with the asynchronous style" section it mean 
> that the news of Virtual Thread is Asynch mechanism related to dead 
> times of IO .But I ask, doesn't this the same concept already present in 
> NIO api ?

Yes, but NIO is significantly harder to use.

- Florian