[erlang-questions] Erlang Web Servers challenge

David Mercer dmercer@REDACTED
Wed Jul 6 18:08:12 CEST 2011


On Wednesday, July 06, 2011, Joe Armstrong wrote:

> Erlang was designed for building fault-tolerant systems, it was *not*
> designed
> for building fast systems

+1.  Salient point worth repeating.  This often gets forgotten.

> The fastest ever Erlang web server should be way slower than the
> fastest non-fault
> tolerant web server.

Cheers,

DBM




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