Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)
by amelius on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:20AM
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> As Erlang requires message passing overhead by design
That's Erlang's main weakness. For parallel code, structurally shared data is immensely useful for processes running in the same address space. With Erlang, you have to give that up.
OTOH, not having this possibility makes distributing processes to other nodes a lot simpler.
That's Erlang's main weakness. For parallel code, structurally shared data is immensely useful for processes running in the same address space. With Erlang, you have to give that up.
OTOH, not having this possibility makes distributing processes to other nodes a lot simpler.