[erlang-questions] Re: Shared/Hybrid Heap

Robert Virding robert.virding@REDACTED
Fri Nov 5 01:14:49 CET 2010


----- "Tony Arcieri" <tony.arcieri@REDACTED> wrote:

> There's been a considerable amount of research on this matter on the
> Java platform. The Azul Java platform addresses both of these
> concerns, with a pauseless GC designed for massively multi-core
> systems (54 cores per CPU):
> 
> 
> http://www.azulsystems.com/products/vega/overview

But they do cheat a bit, it's hardware assisted so not directly comparable to running on general purpose hardware.

> I'd be curious how well Erjang would work on such a system,
> particularly on the types of shared state concurrency problems that
> don't work well on BEAM, like Chameneos.

But the results would be interesting.

Robert


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