[erlang-questions] Article on Erlang in ACM Queue

[Whit Armstrong]

Bill,

Thanks for the code.  Any chance that you have a quadratic
optimization method defined in Erlang code?  I'd be very curious to
see how that problem is tackled in Erlang.

Cheers,
Whit


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Bill McKeeman
<Bill.McKeeman@REDACTED> wrote:
> I think it depends on how much you can do in parallel and how much is really floating point as contrasted to function calls and the like.  I wrote a numerical integration routine with a parameter N for the number of cores I expected to use.  Even with N = 2 it was better than some competing sequential versions.  I'll attach the code.
> /s/Bill
>
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> From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Whit Armstrong
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:22 AM
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> I'm new to Erlang. I've been considering it for a few simulation
> projects in finance.  However, I was discouraged because the ACM
> article suggests that Erlang has poor floating point performance.
>
> Are any list members using Erlang for numerical simulations?  If so,
> do you have any advice on how to how to improve efficiency?  What
> about using binaries to store vectors of doubles?  Are there any
> extensions of Erlang that allow one to do that?
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Whit
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Romain Lenglet
> <romain.lenglet@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Jim Larson has written an article entitled "Erlang for Concurrent
>> Programming", published in the latest ACM Queue:
>> http://mags.acm.org/queue/200809/
>>
>> This article is a very good, practical introduction to Erlang and OTP.
>>
>> --
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