OTP Performance

[Scott Lystig Fritchie]

>>>>> "ms" == Matthew Sackman <matthew@REDACTED> writes:

ms> So if in both cases
ms> it's just measuring the time to fill a queue then why does the OTP
ms> version (with the receiver/gen_server not started) take 35 seconds
ms> to send 10M messages and the non-OTP version, sending to a dead
ms> Pid, take 0.5 seconds?

Perhaps some fraction is due to the bit about "sending to a dead
Pid".  There's all sorts of message passing overhead the VM can avoid
if there is no live recipient.

-Scott