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Elixir WizardsGarbage Collection in Erlang vs JVM/Akka with Manuel Rubio & Dan PlyukhinToday on Elixir Wizards, Manuel Rubio, author of Erlang/OTP: A Concurrent World and Dan Plyukhin, creator of the UIGC Actor Garbage Collector for Akka, join host Dan Ivovich to compare notes on garbage collection in actor models.
The discussion digs into the similarities and differences of actor-based garbage collection in Erlang and Akka and introduces Dan's research on how to perform garbage collection in a distributed actor system.
Topics discussed:
Akka is akin to Erlang actors for the JVM using Scala, with similar principles like supervision trees, messages, and clustering
Erlang uses generational...2023-11-3044 min
Type Theory Forall#30 Actors, GADTs and Burnout - Dan and Pedro
In this episode we have over Dan Plyukhin, a PhD Candidate from
the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
We talk about Dan’s research is in the field of parallelism, more
specifically garbage collection in the presence of actors.
Then we also talk about Pedro's research on translating GADTs from OCaml to Coq,
and the burnout process that lead him to take 10 months off from his PhD to
be with his family back in Brazil.
Links
Dan's Personal Website
Twitter: @dplyukhn
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