Top "Lightweight-processes" questions

Technically, why are processes in Erlang more efficient than OS threads?

Erlang's Characteristics From Erlang Programming (2009): Erlang concurrency is fast and scalable. Its processes are lightweight in that the Erlang virtual …

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What is the difference between lightweight process and thread?

I found an answer to the question here. But I don't understand some ideas in the answer. For instance, lightweight …

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Which is the lightweight linux for virtualbox?

I am completely new to Linux and I want to download and practice linux commands without letting go of my …

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threads and LWP in Linux

Is this sentence correct: "All threads in Linux are LWP but not all LWP are threads". Actually, I try to …

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Haskell lightweight threads overhead and use on multicores

I've been reading the "Real World Haskell" book, the chapter on concurrency and parallelism. My question is as follows: Since …

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