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<h1>The gproc application</h1>
<p><b>Authors:</b> Ulf Wiger (<a href="mailto:ulf.wiger@erlang-consulting.com"><tt>ulf.wiger@erlang-consulting.com</tt></a>), Joseph Wayne Norton (<a href="mailto:norton@geminimobile.com"><tt>norton@geminimobile.com</tt></a>).</p>
Extended process dictionary
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>Gproc was first introduced at the ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop in
Freiburg 2007 (<a href="erlang07-wiger.pdf">Paper available here</a>).</p>
<p>This application was designed to meet the following requirements:</p>
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<ul>A process can register itself using any term.</ul>
<ul>A process can register more than one name</ul>
<ul>A process can publish non-unique {Key,Value} 'properties' </ul>
<ul>The registry must be efficiently searchable</ul>
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<p>As additional features, the registry was designed to allow global
registration, and a special {Key,Value} property called a counter.
It is also possible to create an 'aggregate counter', which will
continuously reflect the sum of all counters with the same name.</p>
<em>In its current state, the global registration facility is broken
and should not be used. It will be migrated over to a new version of
gen_leader. This work will be done with low priority unless people
express a strong urge to use this functionality.</em>
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