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by silly-silly 1878 days ago
Erlang casts are always delivered, or the sender crashes before that point.
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To local pids. Remote, no guarantee is made. Ergo, generally better to assume no guarantees. Same as with everything else; you have at most once, or at least once; there is no exactly once (except in marketing speak that uses an identifier to allow at least once to dedupe within a window).