Advantages of a large number of threads cf other approaches?

[Taj Khattra]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:19:14AM -0000, jonathan@REDACTED wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2004 at 13:23, Jay Nelson wrote:
> 
> > There was a discussion of processes last year.  I tried to
> > catalog a variety of uses for them.  See
> > http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200303/msg00441.html
> 
> That's excellent. I'll go there now. 

also, don't forget about Joe's beautiful phd thesis:

   http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200311/msg00141.html

(i think it would be nice to have a link to Joe's thesis on the Erlang
documentation page, since it explains the Erlang/OTP philosophy so well)

-taj