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AI-generatedCan Phoenix Channels avoid mailbox buildup during concurrent broadcasts?
Phoenix Channels rely on the BEAM VM's lightweight process model and a pub-sub mechanism to deliver messages to connected clients asynchronously. Presence tracks user state across a distributed cluster without a central bottleneck, and each client connection is isolated in its own process under actor-model semantics. The design goal is to understand latency