<span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">Hey guys</span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"></span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">Is there any side effect of sending an infinite stream of messages to a non-existing process registered by name?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">Ex.</div><div dir="auto"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="font-size:17px">1> </span></font><span style="font-family:-apple-system,HelveticaNeue;font-size:16px">Term = ….</span></div><div dir="auto">2> register(foo, self()).</div><div dir="auto">3> 1 / 0.</div><div dir="auto">4> [ foo ! Term || _ <- lists:eq(1. <a href="tel:10000000000000" dir="ltr">10000000000000</a>) ].</div></span><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"></span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">I’m curious about how the VM handles this scenario internally:</span><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">1. messages are simply discarded? And if this the case, will this hurt the VM’s performances?</span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">2. something else???</span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"></span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">Finally, what will happen if during the sending, a process get registered with name 'foo' ? </span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"></span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">Thanks in advance</span><br style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">/Frank</span></div>