[erlang-questions] erlang:send_after/3 questions

[Dmitry Demeshchuk]

Hello, list.

It's time to reveal some erlang:send_after/3 mysteries I think :)

1. When is the message term stored? It's obviously not the callee process,
and it doesn't seem to be the target process (I don't see a process part
that could store it). Is it dangerous to pass large messages through it?

2. What happens when the target process dies before send_after/3 occurs?
The returned ref makes me think that we actually spawn some sort of a
monitor here, and we just stop waiting if the process died by whatever
reason. Is that correct?

3. Is spawning a lot of send_after's or timers a dangerous idea? In case of
using timer module, we'll just lose some started timers due to port
restart. But something tells me that crash of erlang internal timers is a
somewhat more dangerous thing that might even crash the VM.

Any links or facts would be very appreciated.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Demeshchuk
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