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Just so you know, the approach Erlang takes is to keep old, active versions of applications around in memory. File handles and such are never reassigned to newe

Just so you know, the approach Erlang takes is to keep old, active versions of applications around in memory. File handles and such are never reassigned to newer versions. Applications are garbage collected once they are no longer active.

wnoise 16y ago
Old, active versions of _processes_. An application is typically made up of many interacting processes. The application is supposed to be robust to most processes terminating -- in fact, it's often the ways errors and exceptions are handled.
- troutwine 16y ago
  Ah, yes, good catch.