What is the difference between multicore programming in Erlang and other language?

Question

I read Joe Armstrong\'s \'Programming Erlang\', and the \'n times faster in n core machine\' theory. The efficient way to multicore programming in Erlang is to use lots of proce

Answer 1

Context switch is extremely expensive. There are none in Erlang. Locks makes traditional programs start to think which thread is going to execute next. That is also extremely expensive.