On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Mark Fredrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do believe that one can start a new Erlang VM and add it to the cloud at > any time, but I get the impression this is actually rare. With n cores, why > not just start a VM on each core to begin with? A year or two ago, the Erlang VM gained SMP support, so while it runs green threads, they can be executed in parallel. I believe this is called M:N threading (running M green threads on N native ones). Prior to this, I suspect one-vm-per-core was an Erlang idiom. Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
