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by theshrike79 1764 days ago
Web server workers, by definition, don't run for extended periods. Making them the perfect candidate for GC languages.

  1) Get request
  2) Serve request
  3) Get GC'd
No memory issues.
1 comments
vp8989 1763 days ago
Serving web requests with ephemeral workers introduces some new problems though. Generally efficiency in this space comes from pooling, reusing connections, multiplexing etc ...

Ie. amortize expensive work over many requests.

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