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ethan_smithlast Sunday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

The article is about 5000 Erlang nodes (BEAM VMs), not processes - a single BEAM instance can efficiently handle millions of lightweight processes, making this even more impressive from a density perspective.


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lawiklast Tuesday at 12:06 PM

I really should see how many 1 million process BEAM VMs can fit...