Erlang itself is written in Erlang. Sounds strange? Yes, because it is only partially true. OK look at it in more detail: Erlang preprocessor is written in Erlang. Erlang parser is written in Erlang. Erlang compiler to BEAM (byte-code VM) is written in Erlang. Erlang compiler to HiPE (native VM extension) is written in Erlang. … Read more
This is a very open question but I will try to illustrate why Elixir/Erlang may be the best platform out there for developing distributed systems (regardless if you are working with microservices). First, let’s start with some background. The Erlang VM and its standard library were designed upfront for building distributed systems and this really … Read more
You shouldn’t stumble on anything you can do in one that you can’t in the other, since you can freely call Elixir code from Erlang and vice-versa. You can even easily mix Erlang and Elixir files in one project. In Elixir: :erlang_module.erlang_function(args) in Erlang: ‘Elixir.ElixirModule’:elixir_function(args)
erl -eval ‘erlang:display(erlang:system_info(otp_release)), halt().’ -noshell
The Erlang VM runs as one OS process. By default it runs one OS thread per core to achieve maximum utilisation of the machine. The number of threads and on which cores they run can be set when the VM is started. Erlang processes are implemented entirely by the Erlang VM and have no connection … Read more
There are several contributing factors: Erlang processes are not OS processes. They are implemented by the Erlang VM using a lightweight cooperative threading model (preemptive at the Erlang level, but under the control of a cooperatively scheduled runtime). This means that it is much cheaper to switch context, because they only switch at known, controlled … Read more
From Programming Erlang: alt text http://bks8.books.google.com/books?id=Qr_WuvfTSpEC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&sig=ACfU3U2F4YY4KqO0vCuZ4WEZjdE2yFFvvg Many companies are using Erlang in their production systems: • Amazon uses Erlang to implement SimpleDB, providing database services as a part of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). • Yahoo! uses it in its social bookmarking service, Delicious, which has more than 5 million users and 150 million … Read more
Just to clarify the naming, they are both functions. One is a named function and the other is an anonymous one. But you are right, they work somewhat differently and I am going to illustrate why they work like that. Let’s start with the second, fn. fn is a closure, similar to a lambda in … Read more
Using GHC 7.0.3, gcc 4.4.6, Linux 2.6.29 on an x86_64 Core2 Duo (2.5GHz) machine, compiling using ghc -O2 -fllvm -fforce-recomp for Haskell and gcc -O3 -lm for C. Your C routine runs in 8.4 seconds (faster than your run probably because of -O3) The Haskell solution runs in 36 seconds (due to the -O2 flag) … Read more