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Or you do as Erlang's BEAM VM: each thread has it's own memory area which is GC'ed individually. This means upon request termination, you just terminate the thr

by jlouis 1y ago

Or you do as Erlang's BEAM VM: each thread has it's own memory area which is GC'ed individually. This means upon request termination, you just terminate the thread and the memory is reclaimed with no need for a GC.

eru 1y ago
In the abstract, this is very similar to spawning a unix process for every request, never free-ing any memory, and letting the memory allocation die with the process.