Elixir in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. First steps

Figure 1.1. Concurrency in the Erlang virtual machine

Figure 1.2. Server-side system

Chapter 2. Building blocks

Figure 2.1. Recursive structure of the list [1, 2, 3, 4]

Figure 2.2. Modifying a tuple creates a shallow copy of it.

Figure 2.3. Rebinding a tuple makes the old data garbage-collectible.

Figure 2.4. Modifying a list

Figure 2.5. Pushing a new element to the top of the list

Chapter 5. Concurrency primitives

Figure 5.1. BEAM as a single OS process, using a few threads to schedule a large number of processes

Figure 5.2. Inter-process communication via messages

Figure 5.3. Synchronous send and receive implemented on top of the asynchronous messages

Figure 5.4. m:n threading: a small number of schedulers ...