[erlang-questions] Updating Myths of Erlang Performance

[Valentin Micic]

On 04 Jun 2016, at 8:13 AM, Björn Gustavsson wrote:

> "I thought binaries were always faster than lists, so why is binary
> matching slower than list matching?"
> 

Stated this way, the myth may be confusing to some people (well, it is for me).
So, what is the myth? Is it that binaries are faster than lists,  or that binary matching is slower then list matching?

Kind regards

V/