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Virtual Machine

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An abstraction layer that executes bytecode independently of the underlying hardware, providing portability, isolation, and managed runtime services. In Prismatic: the BEAM VM as the foundational runtime for all 115 umbrella applications, enabling lightweight process concurrency, preemptive scheduling, hot code loading, and fault-tolerant supervision trees.

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