From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T08:25:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Beyond threads? Better concurrency methods?


Csaba Henk wrote:
> On 2006-07-20, tsuraan@tsuraan.net <tsuraan@tsuraan.net> wrote:
> > Erlang's sort of a strange one.  Obviously, it can't be called
> > academic, and the programming model is entirely based on concurrency,
> > but at the same time, it doesn't support native threading.  I've always
> > thought that is a strange choice.  They have really fast user-space
> > threading, but it will never use multiple processors unless you're
> > running multiple Erlang VMs, and then you have to explicitly start your
> > thread on the VM of your choice, from what I understand.
>
> I read somewhere about Erlang that the next release of the VM will
> support using OS threads for pooling Erlang processes transparently.
>
> I can't recall though when the referred statement was written -- it's
> possible that it was written long before and that "next release" has
> came to reality since then.
-snip-

Yes, see http://www.erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5/doc/highlights.html