<div dir="ltr">To quote the section of interest:<div><br></div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">At </span><a href="http://couchbase.com/" style="text-decoration:initial;color:rgb(153,102,153);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">Couchbase</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"> we recently spent easily 2+ man/months dealing with a crash in the Erlang VM. We wasted a ton of time tracking down something that was in the core Erlang implementation, never sure what was happening or why, thinking perhaps the flaw was something in our own plug-in C code, hoping it was something we could find and fix. It wasn't, it was a race condition bug in core Erlang. We only found the problem via code inspection of Erlang. This is a fundamental problem in any language that abstracts away too much of the computer."</span></div>
<div><br></div><div style>I'm also interested in what he was doing to come across this "bug."</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Anton Lebedevich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mabrek@gmail.com" target="_blank">mabrek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello.<br>
<br>
In the article<br>
<a href="http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html" target="_blank">http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html</a><br>
he writes about "race condition bug in core Erlang".<br>
<br>
I wonder is that bug known/reported/fixed? Is there more detailed<br>
description of it?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Anton Lebedevich.<br>
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