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Re:3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM by scott_s on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:07PM (#4770736)
Failure as default is usually not a good policy for a runtime system.
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Re:3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM by SoftwareMaven on Sunday November 11, 2012 @06:05PM (#4770886)
Failure as a default is how Erlang manages to keep systems up with 5+ 9's reliability. The difference is that, with Erlang, the entire system and the applications built on it are designed around that.
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Re:3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM by scott_s on Sunday November 11, 2012 @06:12PM (#4770922)
When there is high memory pressure, the default behavior in Erlang is to fail rather than continue garbage-collection?
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