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Co-operative threads
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Factor supports co-operative threads. A thread will yield while waiting for input/output operations to complete, or when a yield has been explicitly requested.

Words for working with threads are in the threads vocabulary.
Starting and stopping threads
Yielding and suspending threads
Thread-local state and variables
Thread implementation