Erlang Run-Time SystemErik Stenman
Erlang Run-Time System
by Erik Stenman · first published 2016
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This book hasn't been released yet, but it seems quite interesting and might be useful: http://www.amazon.com/Erlang-Run-Time-System-Erik-Stenman/dp...
on “Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?” ↗…concept. The Erlang virtual machine has what might be called "green processes" – they are like operating system processes (they do not share state like threads do) but are implemented within the Erlang Run Time System (erts). These are sometimes referred to as "green threads", but have significant differences from standard green threads.
on “Managing two million web servers” ↗The semantics of the BEAM VM and Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS) are much closer to the typical semantics of a large dynamic web app backend than those of Python. No surprise there, it was designed to support telephone exchanges. It provides facilities natively…
on “Python 3 Types in the Wild” ↗If I'm not mistaken, the Erlang Run Time System (BEAMVM) is basically an operating system, in itself, written mostly in a subset of Erlang and C/C++.
on “Ask HN: Operating Systems built with functional languages?” ↗…missing the forest for the trees and probably giving a wrong impression of Erlang for people new to it. Erlang is always spelled as Erlang/OTP (i.e. language/patterns of components provided in libraries) + Erlang Run Time System(ERTS) (the BEAM VM + support components). The whole "System" is what makes it so powerful and uniform with a single environment. Every single "feature" exists only in the context of the whole and cannot…
on “Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing” ↗