If you use a version of Elixir built against the correct OTP release, you'll get the following automatically: VM Performance improvements - normally this is mi

If you use a version of Elixir built against the correct OTP release, you'll get the following automatically: VM Performance improvements - normally this is minor but for this release it's a big big thing Bug fixes - to standard library and VM New Erlang APIs to use directly - you can call Erlang functions easily from Elixir, allowing you to leverage new standard library features, but they won't be used by Elixir because of the compatibility guarantees discussed elsewhere here