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A comment on Joel Reymont's frustration with Erlang. Parent comment

Re:Joel Reymont's frustration with Erlang by gregwebs on Saturday September 13, 2008 @01:40AM (#302976)
Haskell is by far faster on a single core but does not scale as well across multiple cores (due to garbage collection differences).
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Re:Joel Reymont's frustration with Erlang by vegai on Saturday September 13, 2008 @01:27PM (#303206)
It will soon, though. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Releases and "Parallel garbage collection".

A release candidate of ghc 6.10 should be out in a few weeks.

None of this would help Joel, I suppose, since he decided to move away from Haskell to Erlang for other reasons.

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Re:Joel Reymont's frustration with Erlang by gregwebs on Sunday September 14, 2008 @02:29AM (#303612)
The new gc will be an improvement but is is till not as good as Erlang's garbage collection, which is per process.
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