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Re:Plunder and Urbit by lemper on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:12AM (#37059572)
how similar is plunder to erlang's vm? a program can run without the need to know the hardware. iirc, mr. armstrong (r.i.p.) once told a story about a running program that was moved across the ocean.
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Re:Plunder and Urbit by sol_plunder on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:52AM (#37060513)
There is a fair bit of overlap, but Plunder processes are persistent and Erlang processes are ephemeral.

Making processes persistent has nontrivial overhead, so the Erlang model probably doesn't translate well in practice to Plunder.

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