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Erlang Garbage Collection

Mark Mzyk 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.


PHP Insanity VI

Mark Mzyk March 21, 2008

Today’s quote comes from CoffeeGhost.net: PHP is simple to set up for web apps and easy to learn. Nearly all web hosts support it and there are many easy to install applications (like, for example, WordPress). But it has a lot of quirks and inconsistencies (too long to go into here) that it doesn’t need […]


I Check Out By Taking Out The Garbage

Mark Mzyk March 18, 2008

Stress, for various reasons, has been building up in my life lately, and I don’t feel like I’m dealing with it very well.  So I’m skipping the long post I had planned for today and instead I’m providing you with these links on garbage collection: A quick intro to garbage collection A little more about […]