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<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Well,
sure. The ring benchmark serializes all processes,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>which
means that there is practically no parallelism in</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>there.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>There's a similar benchmark, called big.erl (big
bang),</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>where
a thousand or so processes are created, and all</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>start
talking to everyone else.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/highlights.html">http://www.erlang.org/doc/highlights.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.franklinmint.fm/blog/archives/000792.html">http://www.franklinmint.fm/blog/archives/000792.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It
gives excellent speedup on SMP Erlang.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That
might be another good benchmark to try in other</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>languages.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>BR,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=207263016-03082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ulf
W</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org
[mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>tsuraan<BR><B>Sent:</B> den 3 augusti 2007 18:07<BR><B>To:</B> Dmitrii
'Mamut' Dimandt<BR><B>Cc:</B> Zac Brown;
erlang-questions@erlang.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [erlang-questions] Erlang
vs. Stackless Python<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>An interesting result was that the -smp flag caused erlang to slow
down for that test. Should that ever happen?<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 03/08/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Dmitrii
'Mamut' Dimandt </B><<A
href="mailto:dmitriid@gmail.com">dmitriid@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid">Zac
Brown wrote:<BR>> That benchmark has some pitfalls in that it doesn't
really demonstrate the<BR>> scalabilty of erlang that well. I feel
confident saying that erlang would<BR>> scale to a much larger scale far
better than stackless python would. <BR>> Interesting post no doubt, but
could've been a little less biased.<BR>><BR>><BR>Indeed. There's a
longish discussion on hat in the comments. It looks<BR>like erlang is
unbeatable still :)<BR>_______________________________________________
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