[erlang-questions] UDP client/server performance

[Max Lapshin]

I've met difference between erlang and C code only once.

I had to receive MPEG-TS UDP packets, about 100 mbits of them, pack
them into large packets and send via http.

One MPEG-TS UDP packet is about 1300 bytes (7 blocks of 188 bytes), so
there is about 70 000 of messages per second.

I've rewritten UDP handling code in C (with using all erl_driver
capabilities) and made packaging inside C driver.

Now erlang code received about 700 messages per second and CPU got
down from 90% to 10%. So, my ehnancement was in lowering amount of
messages and preallocating big buffers inside C level.