How heavy are erlang events vs threads?
Not sure if this is advisible but i am reading up on erlang and i was taking a look at gen_event and i was wondering what is the overhead in using it for a full event oriented programming like i would use in Node.Js for example.

What is the overhead in having an event handle a task vs spawning a new thread in erlang to do the same task. 

Thanks.
How heavy are erlang events vs threads?
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Not sure if this is advisible but i am reading up on erlang and i was taking a look at gen_event and i was wondering what is the overhead in using it for a full event oriented programming like i would use in Node.Js for example.

What is the overhead in having an event handle a task vs spawning a new thread in erlang to do the same task. 

Thanks.