Re:Erlang Garbage Collector
by toast0 on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:43PM
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> How valuable is the property that other threads' GCs won't stop your thread if your thread bears its own full stop?
GC on a small heap is fast; especially since the language does not allow for circular references in the heap. Almost always, if you're you've got a large heap in your Erlang process, you're doing it wrong; large data generally belongs somewhere else like ETS, the in memory term storage.
GC on a small heap is fast; especially since the language does not allow for circular references in the heap. Almost always, if you're you've got a large heap in your Erlang process, you're doing it wrong; large data generally belongs somewhere else like ETS, the in memory term storage.