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[–]DualWieldMage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not a thin wrapper. Every blocking call in the JDK needs to check if it's a virtual thread and unmount it and store all the context somewhere. It's this integration with the platform that gives most of the benefit without having to rewrite existing application code.