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acqq on March 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem

The tests here confirm your experience, Erlang is for many algorithms significantly slower, even when more cores are used:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/erlang.php

digitalzombie on March 30, 2013 [–]

Do not use Erlang for number performance. I tried with EulerProject and create some prime number generators in Erlang. It is slow as hell.

Use it for what it is built for!

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