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Re:A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang ... by regularfry on Monday May 16, 2011 @01:29AM (#2551752)
That's not quite fair. Erlang was designed from the start to be very, very fast at process switching and message passing. True, that design took a while to bear fruit, but my understanding (from listening to Joe Armstrong speak about it) is that being able to make the core of the language highly efficient was a goal from the start.
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Re:A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang ... by forensic on Monday May 16, 2011 @08:15AM (#2552305)
Trying to make it as efficient as possible is different from the purpose of the language being efficiency.
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Re:A benchmark comparison of Node.js, Tornado, and 3 Erlang ... by regularfry on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @08:34AM (#2556137)
Indeed, but in this case both apply.

EDIT: Give this a listen, the early design and development is described in more detail than I'm capable of going into: http://www.se-radio.net/2008/03/episode-89-joe-armstrong-on-...

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