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Elixir seems to benchmark as half the speed of python, which would put it about 100x to 200x slower than C++. That's a lot of speed to give up for the silver bu
by CyberDildonics 3y ago
Elixir seems to benchmark as half the speed of python, which would put it about 100x to 200x slower than C++. That's a lot of speed to give up for the silver bullet promise of immutable data structures (which I've never understood the appeal of in the first place).
https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-vs-python-performance-benchmarking/54260/3 https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-vs-python-performance-bench...
- elcritch 3y agoIt's unclear why the techempower gives low performance for elixir / phoenix. But from what I've heard is that in real world applications the performance tends to scale much better than Python or Ruby.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoThe link is about execution speed, I think if you start talking about 'scale' that's a diversion, since that isn't about the language and is more about the architecture of the program.
- BaculumMeumEst 3y agoit's because the people who contribute to techempower benchmarks are zealots who believe that it's far more useful and important to show their One True Language in the Best Possible Light than to give you a useful benchmark. take a look at the source code for some of them and see for yourself.
- di4na 3y agoThese benchmarks have been thoroughly studied by the elixir community (even myself) and are... Trash. They compare things that have nothing to do with production, use non realistic code for most language and keep refusing PR to fix it for elixir. The community simply decided to stop trying to engage and let that code die.