The Erlang process scheduler

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Open sseg opened 6 years ago

sseg commented 6 years ago

Might answer these questions:

what is an Erlang process?
how does the runtime schedule processes?
what are the strengths/weaknesses of this strategy?
how does this affect garbage collection?
what affect does this have on CPU- and I/O- bound workloads?
how does it compare to other language platform schedulers? (preemptive or cooperative, e.g. golang, java, etc)
what does this mean when programming in elixir?

maxneuvians commented 6 years ago

Might you answer these yourself at an awesome presentation at the upcoming meetup? Or just something you would like to see discussed?

sseg commented 6 years ago

I meant just the latter. I wouldn't have time to do a full presentation of it for this month. I've only just started digging into it, and it's bigger than I anticipated (https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c).