Spawn vs Apply in worker code.

[j-mcnally]

I was doing some perusing of erlang and found

http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/processes.html

It looks like we can

  def dispatch_work(worker_module, method, args) do
    :erlang.spawn(String.to_atom("Elixir.#{worker_module}"), method, args)
  end

instead of

  def dispatch_work(worker_module, method, args) do
    :erlang.apply(String.to_atom("Elixir.#{worker_module}"), method, args)
  end

This will actually run the worker code as its own process. Im not 100% sure what this does vs having a worker process, but wanted to throw it out there incase it could help clean up the api at all.

[akira]

Thanks, will take a look. We may still need the worker process since we're using it as gen_server to track termination, etc.