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		coldtea on April 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Erlang Matters >You've done something wrong then? Well, the idea is with Erlang you can't.

ssmoot on April 8, 2016 [–]

I don't believe Erlang goes around magically imposing it's own timeouts on message handling.

querulous on April 8, 2016 | | [–]

it doesn't, but an erlang process that is waiting on a message won't block other processes from running ever

coldtea on April 8, 2016 | | [–]

The magic is called "preemptive multitasking".

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