From: Phil Tomson <rubyfan@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T04:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Book wanted: Metaprogramming in Ruby

On 11/9/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Kero wrote:
> > A wrapper around sys V has been done by others, too; mix in a bit of dRb and
> > I think you're rolling (except when you want Erlang-level of performance).
> >
> As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I want! Erlang or Termite
> Scheme lightweight processes, thousands of them, on thousands of nodes!
>

So how are Erlang lightweight processes implemented?  I thought that
there would be a 1:1 correspondence between Erlang processes and
processes on the OS, but apparently Erlang handles it's own processes
(?)  if that's the case how do they take advantage of multiple
processors?

Phil