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Erlang is actually compiled, and binaries above a certain size are reference-counted rather than copied between processes. It still makes various compromises li
by ramchip 10y ago
Erlang is actually compiled, and binaries above a certain size are reference-counted rather than copied between processes. It still makes various compromises like using bignums and doing preemptive scheduling which make it slower in general.
- Skinney 10y agoIt's compiled to erlang bytecode, yes, but not to machine code. You do have the option of doing that, but I do believe you miss out on live updates? Not sure. Erlang is great though, especially Elixir, but for some use cases Go is better.