Stand Alone Erlang

[Hakan Mattsson]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Peter-Henry Mander wrote:

> This has strengthened the argument for implementing future protocol
> stacks purely in Erlang. The SIP codec we've written in pure Erlang
> using binaries runs at comparable speeds to the Megaco stack, so I
> suspect the C driver doesn't confer a huge speed enhancement overall.
> Maybe only enough to be noticeble, not orders of magnitude. With
> concurrency thrown into the mix, the benefit may be moot.

There are two text scanners included in the Megaco application, one is
a C-driver and the other is written in plain Erlang. The performance
difference between the scanners is about a factor 10.

When decoding a Megaco text message, half of the time is parsing and
half is scanning when using the Erlang scanner. So even if the C
scanner is 10 times faster, the total performance gain for decoding
is not more than 2 times. If it is neglectible or not, is up to you to
decide.

/Håkan

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Håkan Mattsson
Ericsson
High Availability Software, DBMS Internals
http://www.erlang.org/~hakan/


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