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		harrisi 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB Erlang does have a mechanism to modify process priority, with process_flag/2,3. As of OTP 28 there's also priority messaging that a process can opt in to. Not really related, but it's new and interesting to note.

jacquesm 5 months ago [–]

> As of OTP 28 there's also priority messaging that a process can opt in to.

That's a very important feature. Without priority messaging you can't nicely recover from queues that start backing up.

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