Re:Ryzen is for Programmers
by CyberDildonics on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:59PM
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It is also far from ideal when it comes to performance from what I've seen. Maybe its overall design is good, but I don't believe that adding so much overhead over native programs is necessary.
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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers
by pythonaut_16 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:47PM
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From my somewhat limited reading it seems that the only inherent performance hit in Erlang's implementation is that all its processes can be interrupted externally, I think the term is cooperative multitasking?
Otherwise I think the rest of Erlang's performance is because it's optimized for reliability and distribution rather than raw performance.