Thread preemption has nothing to do with garbage collection pauses. An Erlang process that allocates a lot will spend more time being paused, irrespective of it

Thread preemption has nothing to do with garbage collection pauses. An Erlang process that allocates a lot will spend more time being paused, irrespective of its priority which might otherwise let it run uninterrupted. I'm not going to continue this "argument" further.