> but if something's based on BEAM, the throughput generally won't impress I'm not sure where you're getting that from- that's typically the area it does well.

> but if something's based on BEAM, the throughput generally won't impress I'm not sure where you're getting that from- that's typically the area it does well. It's bad at number crunching, but you if the work is IO bound (say, like a web application backend) it offers consistently low latency with high throughput.