[erlang-questions] how to break the problem. the erlang way?

[Dave Pawson]

2009/7/31 Mihai Balea <mihai@REDACTED>:

> Depending on how heavy is your message unpacking and deserializing, you
> might want to do something like:
>
> Receiver -> spawn a process for each packet that unpacks/deserializes it ->
> Orderer/Writer
>
> That, of course, assumes packets can be processed independently.
>
> One advantage of having transient processes is that you can tune them to
> never need garbage collection, which is not the case for long lived
> processes.


Just to confirm, by 'transient process', do you mean the process
is spawned, processes one packet, and then dies?


TIA

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