[erlang-questions] Re: Benchmarks

[Robert Virding]

2010/1/13 Isaac Gouy <igouy2@REDACTED>

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>
> --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> -snip-
> > Erlang was designed to provide an off-the-shelf solution to
> > all the
> > things we needed to do to build a fault-tolerant, soft
> > real-time
> > distributed telephone switch control software with hot code
> > replacement.
> >
> > Erlang was not designed to be as fast as C at doing things
> > that C is good at.
>
>
> That's pretty much what the Erlang FAQ says..
>

Not surprising really. Who do you think helped write the original FAQ? :-)

Robert