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A comment on "Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to start once and never stop.".

Re:"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to s... by downer on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @02:00AM (#88629)
"Dear Erlang I: X I like you. Really, I do. But until you can read lines of text out of a file and do basic pattern-matching against them acceptably fast (which most people would say is faster than Ruby), you're stuck in a niche; you're a thought experiment and a consciousness-raiser and an engineering showpiece, but you're not a general-purpose tool. Sorry."

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/22/Erlang

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Re:"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to s... by dima on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @03:02PM (#88833)
Erlang ended up outperforming Ruby by many orders of magnitude in the same benchmark. Read the final article.
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Re:"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to s... by downer on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @05:11PM (#88880)
By "many", do you mean, "one"?
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