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Re:Elixir v1.4.0 released by brightball on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:53PM (#13324578)
The trade off is that a runaway process can't compromise everything else. The inherent performance difference comes from prescheduling vs cooperative scheduling. Prescheduling is slightly slower in exchange for consistency in the face of bad behavior.

Add in the supervision tree structure and you end up trading "super fast" for "very fast, consistent and runs forever"

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Re:Elixir v1.4.0 released by tiffanyh on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:03PM (#13324634)
Is there any updates on the JIT work from 2014 to help speed up raw performance of Erlang?

[1] http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1402914329...

[2] http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar

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Re:Elixir v1.4.0 released by di4na on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:42AM (#13325457)
Yes. The news is basically "still in the roadmap, we got a bit more of time budget from it" from the OTP team. It is not something you will see tomorrow, but it is a long standing thing in the roadmap for the team.

Of course, if you want to sponsorise the work...

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