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> Would that actually work in this instance? It seems like that LRU cache they're talking about is kind of large.

I can't say for sure without knowing what the contents of that heap is, but I suspect that yes, it would work.

However, the reason the heaps are so small is that they're each a lightweight thread, and in Erlang, spinning up new threads is a way of life. It would be hard to overstate what a fundamentally different architecture this is.



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