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Re:Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why They Matter by hajile on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @09:04AM (#10220374)
Erlang basically has BEAM which is similar to Cpython or YARV in that it is both the official implementation and de-facto standard because the actual standards are either non-existent or don't cover a lot of edge cases (making an unofficial spec).

That said, I believe that if an official third-party specification for Erlang were ever created, it would likely have to specify a similar GC and threading system because this is necessary to allow the normal Erlang programming style.

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