What kind of virtual machine is BEAM (the Erlang VM)?
From what I understand a virtual machine falls into two categories either "system virtual machine" or a "process virtual machine". It's kind of fuzzy to me where BEAM lies. Is there another kind of virtual machine I am not aware of? rvirding The Erlang VM runs as one OS process. By default it runs one OS thread per core to achieve maximum utilisation of the machine. The number of threads and on which cores they run can be set when the VM is started. Erlang processes are implemented entirely by the Erlang VM and have no connection to either OS processes or OS threads. So even if you are running