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scott_s on Nov 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM

Failure as default is usually not a good policy for a runtime system.

SoftwareMaven on Nov 11, 2012 [–]

Failure as a default is how Erlang manages to keep systems up with 5+ 9's reliability. The difference is that, with Erlang, the entire system and the applications built on it are designed around that.

scott_s on Nov 11, 2012 | [–]

When there is high memory pressure, the default behavior in Erlang is to fail rather than continue garbage-collection?

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