Let me add that one "thread" per connection works in Erlang for up to 80k connections easily. And since each "thread" is actually a process and each with their

Let me add that one "thread" per connection works in Erlang for up to 80k connections easily. And since each "thread" is actually a process and each with their own GC, long pause-times are never a problem. It is not the year, but the naivety that is the problem here, if any.