[erlang-questions] Sending messages to non-existing process

[Frank Muller]

Hey guys

Is there any side effect of sending an infinite stream of messages to a
non-existing process registered by name?

Ex.
1> Term = ….
2> register(foo, self()).
3> 1 / 0.
4> [ foo ! Term || _ <- lists:eq(1. 10000000000000) ].

I’m curious about how the VM handles this scenario internally:

1. messages are simply discarded? And if this the case, will this hurt the
VM’s performances?
2. something else???

Finally, what will happen if during the sending, a process get registered
with name 'foo' ?

Thanks in advance
/Frank
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