Friendship ended with the garbage collector

Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by JaggerJo on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:30AM (#28325531)

not directly related to this post, but it’s mentioned that ‘async’ spawns a process. This seems very heavy.

I guess Process does not refer to an OS Process here?

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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by jstx1 on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:03AM (#28325684)

Concurrency and multiprocessing terminology is the worst. Trying to learn about it, it seems like every language is doing their own thing with their own set of terms and definitions.

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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by YorickPeterse on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:08AM (#28327336)

My bad for not making it more clear: it refers to a lightweight process here (e.g. like Erlang), not an OS process. Merely spawning these is basically just an allocation (Inko doesn't use PIDs either), so about as fast as it gets.

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