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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> In other words, you do not want to copy stuff between processes if you can 
> help it.

I'd be interested in seeing some benchmarks of multi-threaded Python
beating Erlang, if you have any to show.  Otherwise, you are guessing.
Stuff copied between Erlang processes tends to be pretty small, fwiw.