Folks, I love the Erlang multi-processing experience and think that a lot of the mistakes that I made could be avoided. What I want to have is 1) Processes, aka threads with single-slot in/out mailboxes 2) A facility to keep a list of such processes and send events to them using their process id 3) A socket reader/writer abstraction that communicates with the outside world using using its mailboxes Probably some other things but I would start with the above. I also want to use STM for this. One particular thing that bugs me is that I cannot really use TChan for thread mailboxes. I don't think I experienced this problem with Erlang but using a TChan with a logger thread quickly overwhelms the logger and fills the TChan and a lot (hundreds? thousands) of other threads are logging to it. Someone said it's because the scheduler would give ther other threads proportionally more attention. I found single-slot mailboxes (TMVar) to work much better as they pace the overall message flow. Using them means that asynchronous messages cannot be implemented, though. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'll update my blog as I move forward. Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/