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Problematic traits in Erlang

• kaonashi 13y ago
  > Erlang is interpreted. I was under the impression it was compiled into .beam files. Is this just a subtle point that I'm missing somewhere?
  • colanderman 13y ago
    Yes, and the .beam files are interpreted (i.e. they are not native code). There is a native-code compiler (HiPE). I'm not sure how "much" it compiles the code (e.g. whether type-dispatch code remains or not).