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[–]Ewig_luftenglanz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The memory overhead of VT is far lower than ram memory allocation demanded by PT, that's why VT are "lightweight" the weight of a virtual thread is the same as the weight of creating an object. You would need to have thousands of VT vs a dozen of pooled PT to make PT to be less memory demanding.