There’s a few papers about it such as: - “Heap architectures for concurrent languages using message passing” - “Exploring Alternative Memory Architectures for

There’s a few papers about it such as: - “Heap architectures for concurrent languages using message passing” - “Exploring Alternative Memory Architectures for Erlang: Implementation and Performance Evaluation” - “A Case for the Unified Heap Approach to Erlang Memory Management” You can find those and more discussion by googling shared heap erlang.