Here is a blog post by Bartosz Milewski, which talks about problems with threads and using Erlang is beneficial.
“With the multicore explosion in the making, are we going to be running hundreds of thousands of threads in a single program? Erlang programmers would emphatically say, yes! C++ and Java programmers would probably say no.”
He also posted a few blogs on using the “D programming language“.
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1 Hundreds of thousands of threads? Yes, with Erlang | insideHPC // Aug 27, 2008 at 9:23 am
[...] Multicore.info with the pointer to a blog post by Bartosz Milewski on some of the problems with threaded programming in the mainstream languages Thread model based on heavy-duty OS threads and mutexes has its limitations. You can ask server writers, or Google for “thread per connection” to convince yourself. Servers use thread pools exactly because of that. [...]