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Re:Some thoughts on Go and Erlang by riobard on Monday April 28, 2014 @12:44AM (#7658250)
If you only share state by passing messages you should be fine. The challenge is to make sure the "only" part.

Erlang's reduction-based scheduling basically counts how many steps each process has executed, and automatically switches to other processes once a process has finished a certain number of reductions. So even if a process is running tight loops, it would not starve other processes. Go's scheduler currently cannot promise that.

Re:Some thoughts on Go and Erlang by davidw on Monday April 28, 2014 @04:38AM (#7658858)
Another way to put it: you can write the equivalent of

    while (true) { do some stuff }
in Erlang and it will not hang the system.