Erlang Garbage Collection
Mark | March 30, 2008
When I asked the question about how Erlang Garbage Collection works, I expected that because of Erlang’s focus on concurrency its garbage collection algorithm would be incredibly complicated.
I was wrong. Turns out, it’s rather simple as far as garbage collection algorithms go, thanks in large part to how Erlang uses processes.
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From what I’ve heard, Erlang intentionally doesn’t over-optimize the compiler or runtime to really drive home how large the scalar value of scaling wide can be. Runtime speed doesn’t matter when you have a ton of machines =)