title: Process balancing in Erlang
body: <p>Does anybody knows if there is a sort of 'load-balancer' in the erlang standard library? I mean, if I have some really simple operations on a really large set of data, the overhead of constructing a process for every item will be larger than perform the operation sequentially. But if I can balance the work in the 'right number' of process, it will perform better, so I'm basically asking if there is an easy way to accomplish this task.</p>
  
  <p>By the way, does anybody knows if an OTP application does some kind of balance load? I mean, in an OTP application there is the concept of a "worker process" (like a java-ish thread worker)?</p>