[erlang-questions] Sender punishment removed

[Сергей Прохоров]

Hi,

I asked the same question in Erlang Slack chat and got the answer from
Lukas Larsson:

https://erlanger.slack.com/archives/C055DJA49/p1516182075000430

garazdawi10:41 AM
@seriyps we have been wanting to remove it for a very long time, as it was
introduced mainly to solve problems with non-smp systems and doesn't do
much in smp systems. We are just now in progress of re-writing how process
to process signal/message passing works, so we decided that it was time to
remove sender punishment at the same time.

Also, we have lately been writing a lot of more benchmarks in order to
track the performance of various parts of the Erlang/OTP and
senderpunishment makes it very hard to get predictable performance.


So I saw that the sender punishment was removed in [1]. The commit message
> doesn't outline any of the reasoning behind this. Is there any more details
> available about this anywhere I can read? I understand it never really
> worked that well but it would still be interesting to understand a bit
> further.
> On a similar note what is the current thinking on flow control between
> erlang processes? Are there any improvements on mixing in a few calls in
> with the casts?
> [1]
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/2e601a2efc19d64ed0628a5
> 973596e6331ddcc7c
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