The docs there hint at how it’s done in go and how it could be done in erlang: the runtime monitors how long a given goroutine has been running without yielding

The docs there hint at how it’s done in go and how it could be done in erlang: the runtime monitors how long a given goroutine has been running without yielding the scheduler, and uses a signal handler to interrupt code that has exceeded a 10ms quota of continuous usage. https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-asynchronous-preemption-b5194227371c https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-asynchronous-preempt...