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Re:Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” proj... by exikyut on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:10AM (#30301649)
> BEAM is not fast

> It is however really really low latency

I've been interested in Erlang for a while, and reading this is intriguing. Taken literally the above makes no sense :) but it also kind of... does, sort of, and I would like to understand how this works.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” proj... by tormeh on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:34AM (#30301916)
There's often a tradeoff between latency and throughput. Think GC algorithms or IO buffers. The Erlang project has historically chosen the far left end of this spectrum. They also haven't cared about numerical performance at all, delegating that to C code.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” proj... by exikyut on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:35AM (#30302598)
Ooooh, burst response as opposed to flat-out super tight hot loops.

That honestly makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

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