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Re:Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser by lawik on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:27PM (#22140402)
Is that the thing where after a number of reductions by a single process the BEAM will make sure another process gets its time in the sun? I believe so but I'm not familiar enough with the internals. They definitely spoke about reductions in the meeting I half-listened to.
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Re:Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser by anthony_doan on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:55PM (#22140700)
Correct. It makes it so for(true) in other languages doesn't hijack the cpu and strive for the low latency goals of Erlang.

To be fair you can go about it by just filling up a process mail box with tons of messages.

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