<div dir="ltr">One point that I've heard a couple of times, is that single CPU emulator (not sure which one of them) is noticeably (like up to 20%) faster than SMP due to all the locks it doesn't have to maintain. So for some applications running say 8 of these will be better than a single SMP 8 core emulator. This is a casual opinion from the couch and I don't have the numbers to prove the point :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-03 15:33 GMT+02:00 Lukas Larsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lukas@erlang.org" target="_blank">lukas@erlang.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello!<div><br></div><div>At the moment it is possible to build three different production versions of the Erlang VM; the smp emulator, the threaded non-smp emulator and the non-threaded non-smp emulator.</div><div><br></div><div>The non-smp versions have been kept around since the introduction of the smp emulator as they can run on OS:s without thread support and also for certain applications they provide a small performance boost. However we now feel that they have outlived their usefulness and plan to remove them.</div><div><br></div><div>The main reason why we want to remove non-smp is because we do not want to spend time on implementing the dirty-scheduler feature for threaded non-smp, which is something we would have to do for the threaded non-smp emulator to remain production quality. The different variants also increase our test-scope by quite a lot, so reducing that is a very beneficial side effect.</div><div><br></div><div>The current plan is for the non-smp emulators to be deprecated and not built by default in OTP-20, and then removed completely in OTP-21.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have a very good reason for wanting to use the non-smp emulator, please do let us know as soon as possible so that we can consider whether we want to keep the non-smp version anyway.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Lukas</div></font></span></div>
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