Stackless Threading
An event driven approach is used in hardware description languages. A thread context only needs a cpu stack while actively processing an event, once done the cpu can move on to process other event-driven threads, that allows an extremely large number of threads to be handled. This is essentially a Finite-state machine approach.
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