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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by pertymcpert on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:04PM (#13477067)
WTF. How do you turn a problem which cannot be reduced into parallel sub-components into an Erlang program then? Are there just a huge class of computations that cannot be done with Erlang? Of course not.
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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by sokoloff on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:52PM (#13477737)
Of course you can implement an inherently serial algorithm in Erlang. It just won't run N times faster on N cores.
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