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You can always call a c program for something you absolutely need speed for though right? https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/wiki/Interoperability-with-C ht

• vvanders 10y ago
  Yup, and dirty NIFs for long running(>1ms) are just around the corner in BEAM.
  • willyk 10y ago
    > And I'm kinda avoiding that on a quad core CPU your > C program is really going to only use one core out > of the box while elixir will use all four.) I think that's a pretty major factor to avoid -- multicore processors are the immediate/commercial foreseeable future of CPUs, so its not inconsequential that Erlang/Elixir allow you to be able to use cheap processes in order take full advantage of this