This post is part of the Future Java Releases series. In this second post in the future of Java series, we will focus on a new feature of the JVM designed to improve performance. Project Loom - Virtual Threads Project Loom aims to deliver new and improved APIs and JVM enhancements for concurrency. Concurrency has famously been a hot topic for ages, since Moore’s law started to slow down a few years ago and chip makers started creating CPUs with multiple cores.