[erlang-questions] Shared memory and message passing

[Joe Armstrong (TN/EAB)]

This kind of usage is, I guess OK, if it's hidden from the
user as part of an language implementation, but it should
definitely not be exposed to the application programmer.

It's rather like garbage collection - or page table manipulation
ok for a very small number of system programmers to use, but
forbidden in regular applications

/Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Reymont [mailto:joelr1@REDACTED] 
> Sent: den 5 september 2006 11:02
> To: Joe Armstrong (TN/EAB)
> Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Shared memory and message passing
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> Joe,
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> What about using shared memory to optimize message passing 
> and avoid copying memory?
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> This does not involve locks or critical sections, right?
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> 	Thanks, Joel
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