[erlang-questions] Microsoft developer vision - functional programming

[Zvi]

this would work if all the data stored in the global VM heap, but in Erlang
b/c of Soft Real-Time constraint, each process has it's own heap, so you
can't just pass pointer to object from another process' heap, which can be
garbage collected any time.
 Erlang have some optimizations, for large binaries, which are stored in the
global heap, and using reference counting for garbage collection.

Zvi


Cameron Kerr-2 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:42:42PM +0200, Hugh Perkins wrote:
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the benefits of
> Erlang's (in particular) single-assignment restriction that you only
> need to pass around a pointer, and never need to copy the data (because
> the data cannot be modified once it is first assigned). Obviously, you
> would need to copy the data if sending to a different machine.
> 
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