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Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by skybrian on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:04PM (#26370942)
How does communication between the lightweight processes work? What do the messages look like? Are they copied?
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Re:Launch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssem... by bkolobara on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:36PM (#26371151)
Yes, the data is copied from the memory of one process to another. In the future we want to use the WebAssembly multi-memory proposal to allow processes to share data without copying and reduce overhead in certain cases.
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