If you mean that it bottlenecks communication with it, yes, the mailbox can kind of be treated like a 'mutex'. Depending on how you are operating on the data and how it can be referenced then a pool of these managed by a supervisor (or library like poolboy) or operating on multiple messages at once inside the process or even raising it into ETS with a library for operating on the data within ETS can be significantly faster. However a good bottleneck can help in many cases as well (most I dare say) so it depends on the use-case as to whether you want it or not.
TL;DR: A process generally operates on one message at a time, but there are alternative methods. On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 3:33:30 AM UTC-6, Kaveh Shahbazian wrote: > > (Noob Here) - > > Is a statefull process a bottleneck? (Not exactly; because of the Mailbox) > Like a `mutex` in more traditional languages? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/b404dc0f-c451-4d7a-8c75-1af3203e59a2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
