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What makes you think the BEAM VM is "heavy"? It's almost like an OS in itself and initially designed to be like a more capable and robust OS on top of rather c
by cess11 1y ago
What makes you think the BEAM VM is "heavy"?
It's almost like an OS in itself and initially designed to be like a more capable and robust OS on top of rather constrained computers. In my experience it's trivial to shell or port out to the environment when I want to, and I also see people that I don't think of as highly skilled low-level programmers do things with NIF:s so that can't be exceptionally demanding either.
- conradfr 1y agoYes it's definitely not heavy like a Java program that will cannibalize your RAM. It's actually quite lean. It will use all your cores without you asking (which is fantastic right?) but it's configurable AFAIK.
- cess11 1y agoIt will also use preemptive multitasking, so busy processes won't pin CPU cores at the expense of other tasks.