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		waffle_ss on June 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang > But as far as I'm aware the memory for a message in Erlang is shared between threads - it's only local variables that use private memory No, the messages are truly copied: http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk/2013/10/embrace-copying.h... edit: the exception being large binaries apparently

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