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Well I think he was just comparing it to the corresponding erlang programme on a single core. I don't see Joe saying anywhere that it will run N times faster th

• renox 12y ago
  Which is why this is dishonest.. The real question is 'how can I make my program go fast?' answering about a different question is a marketing trick.
  • lostcolony 12y ago
    "Here’s the good news for Erlang programmers: Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor" isn't dishonest. He's clearly speaking to Erlang programmers. What would be dishonest would be "here's the good news for C programmers: Your C program should just run N times faster on an N core processor if written in Erlang". To your point though, Erlang gives you scalability. Yeah, on a single core, the C program will be faster. On multiple cores, multiple processors, multiple -machines-, idiomatic Erlang should scale. C code will not. You have to tear it apart, rewrite it, figure out a distribution model, code that or find a good library, fix the bugs in your own code or work around the caveats of that library, etc etc.
  • rakoo 12y ago
    No, the real question is "how can I make my program scale". Scalability and performance are quasi-orthogonal concepts (quasi, because what matters to an end-user is overall performance, all things considered).
  • rdtsc 12y ago
    What is dishonest? Who is asking "how can I make my program go fast?". I've heard you ask that question. So you asked your own question, then claimed the other one was dishonest. Ok anyway,now that you've asked the question, maybe elaborate a bit why you think your program is slow and how do you think you can make it "go fast".