[erlang-questions] trading systems

[Joel Reymont]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Jayson Vantuyl wrote:

> Multicore systems inherently increase latency and decrease cache  
> performance.  Erlang is optimized for these.  Any information you  
> have regarding cache behavior is highly unlikely to be directly  
> applicable.  Test and profile, early and often.  It's the only way  
> to go.

Erlang is often slow, even on multicore. Erlang is damn hard to  
optimize. I have spent literally months trying to understand the  
behavior and optimize OpenPoker and recently another system I build  
for a client. The latter system scales to hundreds of thousands of  
users on Amazon EC2 and makes use of up to 200 servers in simulation.

Both projects need high performance. I still bear the scars and I'm  
still recovering.

I feel that Erlang is a good start but I also feel that I must start  
the right way. After a good deal of time spent with Erlang, I'm very  
wary of "use the naive approach first" suggestions. It's all good in  
theory but does everyone making these suggestions have my amount of  
practice ;-).

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