Mukulch15
What are the benefits of using dynamic supervisor when supervisor also has start_child to start workers dynamically?
I was going through the docs of both supervisor and dynamic supervisor and saw that supervisor also has the function start_child that will allow us to start a worker dynamically using child_spec. Can anyone please elaborate what additional benefits DynamicSupervisor offers us since we can start workers dynamically using Supervisor module as well ?
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rvirding
We can already start a child in the normal Supervisor by passing in a child spec so what benefits does DynamicSupervisor give us?
Sebb
here is some background:
https://blog.carbonfive.com/comparing-dynamic-supervision-strategies-in-elixir-1-5-and-1-6/
thiagomajesk
I’d like to cross-reference this topic that helped me understand a little bit more about it, just in case someone else finds this first in the future (like I did): Difference between Supervisors and DynamicSupervisors what am I missing?.
PS.: In summary, DynamicSupervisors is a special module with performance optimizations for this specific use-case (new docs are on the way to make this a bit more clear).
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