From: Ola Bini <ola.bini@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T05:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Book wanted: Metaprogramming in Ruby

Phil Tomson wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Erlang processes are usually implemented with M:N-threading.

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