How to prove the erlang performance?

NavTux navaneethanit@REDACTED
Mon Jan 11 20:09:20 CET 2010



I am very thankful to your response,friend you have listed out the
features or merits of our language just i would like to know how
erlang process? what is the erlang process methodology for client's
request?i mean what the technique used in erlang for HiPerformance? i
ll be very happy for getting the answers from you?



Ulf Wiger <ulf.wiger <at> erlang-consulting.com> writes:

>
>
> NavTux wrote:
> > How to prove the performance of erlang?
> >
> > We know the familiar language java is well developed,in case we are
> > erlang lovers how to prove the erlang's performance and ehat the tools
> > are needed for it?
>
> I would say that Erlang is pretty well developed too, to the point
> where you will find little or no "low-hanging fruit". It is important
> to realize that there are lots of design decisions and tradeoffs
> to be made when creating a language and optimizing for performance.
>
> Making the fastest possible language was never a design goal with
> Erlang. The primary goals were to make a language suitable for
> building non-stop complex control systems. This presents all kinds
> of obvious tradeoffs:
>
> soft-real-time scheduling of thousands of concurrent activities
>   is clearly at odds with maximum sequential performance.
> Dynamic typing is superb for dynamic code change in large systems,
>   but has a performance penalty.
> Dynamic call and message tracing is wonderful for debugging of
>   embedded systems, but carry some runtime overhead.
> Share-nothing concurrency will help you stay sane, but may
>   incur unnecessary copying in some cases.
> Dynamic memory management simplifies things greatly, and can
>   often lead to both better performance and less memory usage,
>   but your mileage will vary depending on the problem.
>
> BTW, did you really mean "prove performance"? I read it as
> "improve performance". In either case, the answer depends on what
> aspects of performance you are interested in, and what your
> problem domain is.
>
> On the topic of proving performance, I would say that the tools
> for analysing performance in applications with tens of thousand
> concurrent processes, starting and stopping hundreds of processes
> every second, are *at least* as well developed for Erlang as they
> are for Java. This goes both for profiling tools and verification
> tools. Verifying massively concurrent applications is a research
> topic, but I daresay that the Erlang crowd is on the leading
> edge here. Heck, even the Erlang debugger is capable of debugging
> distributed and massively concurrent systems, even though stop-and-
> go debugging is often extremely inconvenient in embedded real-time
> applications.
>
> BR,

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