You can't share objects across threads (called "processes") in BEAM, so it's very different. The GC only ever needs to pause one call stack at a time to do a fu

You can't share objects across threads (called "processes") in BEAM, so it's very different. The GC only ever needs to pause one call stack at a time to do a full GC cycle. Memory shared across processes is generally manually managed, typically more akin to a database than an object heap.