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Re:Elixir v1.1.0 Released by ssmoot on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:17PM (#10279749)
Akka doesn't spawn additional OS processes. It's thread based. (ForkJoinPool? Though maybe that's changed.)
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Re:Elixir v1.1.0 Released by perishabledave on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:22PM (#10279775)
Ah yea sorry, wasn't implying that it was only stating what BEAM did. I think Akka uses a thread pool so you'd be right.
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