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by ot 865 days ago
You can do that, Java did recently. You need full control of all the blocking primitives so they can yield the thread.

Where this breaks is with FFI: if you cannot intercept blocking calls in foreign functions, you block useful threads or even deadlock. This is what the quote in the article is about:

> The cost for the native compatibility with the C/system runtime is the “function coloring” problem.