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		Matthias247 on May 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pony – High Performance Actor Programming I guess the claim was that such an erlang actor would run forever when nobody sends it a message to stop it. And with pony it would be detected that the actor is no longer reachable and it would be automatically stopped.

SnowyOwl on May 3, 2015 | [–]

Indeed, Pony can automatically detect actors with empty stacks and message queues, also when these are part of a cycle.

rdtsc on May 4, 2015 | [–]

Erlang has something like that as well:

http://erldocs.com/17.3/erts/erlang.html#hibernate/3

Hibernate compresses the current memory, save it and then kill the active process. Then if a message is sent to it, it "wakes" up.

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