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		pmarreck on July 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users Note that Erlang 20 may have solved the problem that FastGlobal tries to fix (that of not copying large amounts of data unnecessarily)

QuinnWilton on July 12, 2017 [–]

Erlang 20 fixes the case where you're copying a constant literal, but unfortunately won't help if you're sharing a dynamically generated, but infrequently modified, term; like Discord does in this post.

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