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2008

Once you reach a certain level of activity in the system where the garbage collector can no longer keep up (and it will happen), then every line of code in your system is now a potential failure point that can leave the whole program in a bad state. Lisp has this problem. Java has this problem. Erlang does not.

Damien Katz

# 14th April 2008, 3:17 pm / damien-katz, erlang, faliure, garbagecollection, java, lisp