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not directly related to this post, but it’s mentioned that ‘async’ spawns a process. This seems very heavy. I guess Process does not refer to an OS Process her
by JaggerJo 5y ago
not directly related to this post, but it’s mentioned that ‘async’ spawns a process. This seems very heavy.
I guess Process does not refer to an OS Process here?
- jstx1 5y agoConcurrency and multiprocessing terminology is the worst. Trying to learn about it, it seems like every language is doing their own thing with their own set of terms and definitions.
- YorickPeterse 5y agoMy bad for not making it more clear: it refers to a lightweight process here (e.g. like Erlang), not an OS process. Merely spawning these is basically just an allocation (Inko doesn't use PIDs either), so about as fast as it gets.