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Could someone explain how the language VM is capable of doing things like making sockets without having an OS to make system calls to? Pretty darned impressive
by portmanteaufu 13y ago
Could someone explain how the language VM is capable of doing things like making sockets without having an OS to make system calls to?
Pretty darned impressive.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThis isn't the standard language VM, but a special one designed for this purpose. Presumably, in addition to the normal VM features, it implements the "OS" elements that the regular runtime would rely on. Looked at another way: its a single-purpose OS, whose single purpose is "run Erlang code".