FAQ terminology harmonisation

Mikael Karlsson mikael.karlsson@REDACTED
Tue Apr 1 09:18:44 CEST 2003


Tue 01 april 2003  Matthias Lang wrote:
> Hi,
...
>   process: thread. An process is very lightweight. The rest of the
>         world refers to lightweight processes as threads. So does the
> 	Erlang FAQ from now on.
>
..
> Any further suggestions?

To me a thread is lightweight, but also share context/memory with other
threads. That is not the case for Erlang processes.

/Mikael



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