Yes but intentionally so. There is an intrinsic tension between latency and throughput. Erlang chooses willfully to optimize for the former rather than the latt

Yes but intentionally so. There is an intrinsic tension between latency and throughput. Erlang chooses willfully to optimize for the former rather than the latter. This works when the majority of the tasks occurring concurrently are typically small and lightweight (aka, a web server).