On 10/23/07, Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org wrote:
Even the magical Erlang way of concurrency won't solve real world issues such as multiple processes contending for limited hardware resources. These need synchronization. No one answered Igor's point on this.
But they do deal with it: points of contention like this get their own process. When you open a file in Erlang a process is started to manage it. All reads and writes go through this process so you can have as many processes doing these read/writes as you want.