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Re:Why Erlang Matters by pcwalton on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:38PM (#11450506)
Sure, it's not very good for task parallelism (though some of the extensions that AMD is introducing for APUs are very interesting!) But if you've got an embarrassingly data-parallel problem, you can't beat its performance.
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Re:Why Erlang Matters by vvanders on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:42PM (#11450537)
That performance is largely dependent on drivers + HW though, right?

Then again I'm used to mobile GPUs where any conditional statement used to cause the shader to be evaluated 2^n for each and the gathered at the end(aka forget about any branching).

For my 2c I'm a fan of Elixir + Rust, Rust has a nice C ABI that should make it easy to embed.

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