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Erlang's VM is very sophisticated and mature, it is at least years ahead of Go, imo. For example, compare Erlang's pre-emptive scheduling [1] to "goroutines".

• chimeracoder 13y ago
  > it is at least years ahead of Go, Yes, Erlang has admittedly had decades to improve the scheduler (versus a couple of years for the gc compiler in Go), so this is quite literally true. However, you should know that goroutines are pre-emptively scheduled now; the "scare quotes in your comment seem to imply that they aren't: http://golang.org/doc/go1.2#preemption http://golang.org/doc/go1.2#preemption
  • shanemhansen 13y ago
    I'm a go fanboi, but to be fair, goroutines are now more preemptive, but not completely. In practice that means that if you call a function somewhere in your infinite loop, you'll get preempted. It's still possible for a single goroutine to steal an os thread. Practically speaking though, I feel like nobody should be scared away from go due to it's lack of full pre-emption. Seriously, don't write an infinite loop with no function calls.
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