Re:Erlang/OTP: Garbage Collector
by pron on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:38AM
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No, you do all that with the JDK, too, and at high performance.
As an Erlang fan for many, many years, I am quite familiar with BEAM's design (and why I think Erlang would gain a lot by running on the JVM (or, more precisely, from implementing BEAM and OTP on top of the JVM). Aside from implementation details -- the JDK has simply had a lot more work put into it -- the main difference between the two is that BEAM is higher level, and the runtime itself does more things out of the box, while the JVM is lower level and you can do more in libraries (with no loss of performance, because Java is compiled to very efficient machine code).
Not only would Erlang and Elixir gain better performance, but maintaining and evolving them would require less effort.
As an Erlang fan for many, many years, I am quite familiar with BEAM's design (and why I think Erlang would gain a lot by running on the JVM (or, more precisely, from implementing BEAM and OTP on top of the JVM). Aside from implementation details -- the JDK has simply had a lot more work put into it -- the main difference between the two is that BEAM is higher level, and the runtime itself does more things out of the box, while the JVM is lower level and you can do more in libraries (with no loss of performance, because Java is compiled to very efficient machine code).
Not only would Erlang and Elixir gain better performance, but maintaining and evolving them would require less effort.