[erlang-questions] Millions of processes?

[Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)]

Alex Arnon skrev:
> 
> Also:
> 
> "... because it is, frankly, stupid to have large numbers of threads. "
> 
>  Dear oh dear.

...but let's all remember that there's a big difference between
erlang processes and POSIX threads. Threads share memory, so there's
no isolation at all. I'd hate to debug a misbehaving application
where hundreds of thousand threads all have unconstrained access to
all data.

BR,
Ulf W