Disable GC entirely

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 09:07:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 08:57:55 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> That sounds horribly non-deterministic. What if you have 256mb 
>> of ram, and
>> no pagefile, and you fill it up till you have 1mb headroom 
>> spare?
>
> It is Erlang, it is not meant to be run on 256Mb RAM ;) It kind 
> of solves the issue of response latency for GC-enabled software 
> on powerful enterprise servers. Because with stop-the-world GC 
> you can't do it, does not matter how powerful your hardware is.
>
> Does not help game dev and small-scale embedded though, that 
> for sure ;)

Actually there is a game studio in Germany, Wooga that uses 
Erlang for their game servers, they are quite happy to have left 
C++ land.

http://www.slideshare.net/wooga/from-0-to-1000000-daily-users-with-erlang

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Paulo