Concurrency in Functions and Messages

Bengt Kleberg <>
Fri Dec 27 08:42:02 CET 2002 

> X-Authentication-Warning: r2d2.sics.se: joe owned process doing -bs
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:16:59 +0100 (CET)
> From: Joe Armstrong <>


> Most people think that processes are big and heavy things, whereas threads
> are lightweight things.

unless people know about plan9 and rfork(). see 
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/fork


bengt

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