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molloy on Jan 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)

> I've yet to find a language that can communicate between threads as performant-ly.

Minor nitpick: Erlang uses processes, not threads. Your comment doesn't explicitly say that Erlang uses threads though, so perhaps I'm being overly pedantic.

ams6110 on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

But an Erlang process is not the same as an OS process, or even an OS thread. It's managed by the Erlang VM and is very lightweight.

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