Erlang vs. Stackless Python: a first benchmark

Re:Erlang vs. Stackless Python: a first benchmark by unrealwh on Thursday December 25, 2008 @07:15PM (#409855)

not surprising that python is competitive...afaik haskell also crushes erlang in lightweight threading benchmarks (supposedly the core strength of erlang).

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Re:Erlang vs. Stackless Python: a first benchmark by jbjohns on Friday December 26, 2008 @05:28AM (#410096)

Have a link for this? But lightweight threading isn't all that Erlang brings to the table. It comes with an entire library designed to create extremely fault tolerant, live-upgradable, extremely concurrent systems.

Getting lightweight threading of the same speed or faster is good, but it's less than 1/3 of the equation.

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Re:Erlang vs. Stackless Python: a first benchmark by njharman on Friday December 26, 2008 @02:47PM (#410358)

Fault-tolerance (uptime) is Erlang's core strength. Concurrency is just a pleasant and currently trendy side benefit.

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Re:Erlang vs. Stackless Python: a first benchmark by igouy on Saturday December 27, 2008 @12:26PM (#411143)

> afaik haskell also crushes erlang in lightweight threading

For some definition of "crushes"

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=thr...

But with quad-core Erlang processes float between cores slowing things down for sequential programs

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=th...

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