Java Scheduler Thread Switching

I’ve read somewhere that in Java scheduler, thread switching happens after execution of certain amount of instructions and not after a certain time (like schedulers used in operating systems). But the references were missing. I wanted to know if this is correct.

Answer

Java used to have a feature called GreenThreads, It was removed in 1.3. For all practical purposes we can assume that thread scheduling is directly influenced by the underlying operating systems’s process/thread scheduling strategy. In this context, developers need to assume that threads are executed/scheduled randomly and should code/treat them as such.