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Yes, it's absolutely amazing. But I'm intimately familiar with how the Erlang VM works and it would seem to me to be a very bad match for HPC on the number crun
by jacquesm 6mo ago
Yes, it's absolutely amazing. But I'm intimately familiar with how the Erlang VM works and it would seem to me to be a very bad match for HPC on the number crunching side, though it likely would do quite well on the orchestration side but that would require the people writing the rest of the code to change their way of working completely. And given how much of that is still F77 I highly doubt they would be willing to make that investment without the promise of some massive gain.
- Joel_Mckay 6mo agoFor simple AMQP, it has performed rather well for our use-cases over the years. Haven't personally deployed this version yet. ymmv =3 https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues
- jacquesm 6mo agoOf course it does, that's an ideal usecase. But the topic is a different kettle of fish. And I'm saying that as a complete fan of Erlang, it is one of the few pieces of software 'done right' that I'm aware of. Unfortunately that comes at the price of being unsuitable for highly optimized number crunching unless you want to break out the C-compiler and write an extension. Python is similar, but there the extensions have been grafted on so well lots of people forget that they are not part of the language itself. In the Erlang world you'd have a lot of leaks and conversions to make something like that work and it would likely never be as transparent as python, which in many ways is both the new BASIC and the new FORTRAN.