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Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-09 Cached

This technical article explains how to use Erlang's :counters and :atomics modules for high-performance counting and shared mutable state outside the standard process isolation model. It covers atomic operations like add_get, exchange, and compare-and-swap within the BEAM runtime.

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