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platform thread

A Java thread backed one-to-one by an operating-system thread.

A platform thread wraps an OS thread for its whole life and reserves a native stack (by default 1 MB of address space on common 64-bit platforms); Thread.ofPlatform() (Java 21) or new Thread(runnable) creates one.