June 22, 2008
Erlang vs. Java benchmarking update
As an update to my last post, I didn’t find an image which goes to 100.000 tasks for performance, but the Kilim guys have a graph for creating 200.000 tasks.
Perhaps they implement an supervisor architecture too. And perhaps this makes it into a future JDK.
Update: There is also a Google talks video about Kilim on YouTube.
It is a good sign that Erlang’s core concepts are pushing their way into the Java community. This may be just the thing to carry Java across the paradigm shift that multi-core is forcing in programming. Given the immensely larger development resources devoted to JVM performance I am surprised that the gap is not larger in Killim’s favor.
Killim is a very interesting initiative and one which I will be watching closely.
June 26th, 2008