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Why do you think it pays for these characteristics? I'm interested on your point of view.
by pyotrgalois 13y ago
Why do you think it pays for these characteristics? I'm interested on your point of view.
- jerf 13y agoSome is just performance; there's an inevitable performance loss on copying. I've had some trouble with the binary sharing routines still leaking on me, though that got better as the VM improved. Some of it is a bit more theoretical, such as the way Erlang basically has no type system, which I believe is so that everything has an unambiguous serialization which is used for the cross-node communication, but I believe more modern languages have more flexible solutions. Really, though, it's just that "nothing is free"; it's not as if these decisions are so bad that they are objectively wrong, it's just, nothing is free.