Archive for the 'Erlang' Category
Take for example this recent post on hacker news with the title “Amazon and Google Discover Erlang (IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang)”. There in the comments someone gives a source for the IMDB claim: “IMDb on Java/Erlang (a job posting)”. Going to the job listing results in
We are currently working in Perl […]
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 […]
Interesting picture: Benchmarking Erlang versus Java concurrency
9 Comments Published June 21st, 2008 in Erlang, JavaI stumbled upon a nice Java framework called Kilim. It implements message passing in Java and it’s interesting to compare to Erlang:
As I’ve said before, usually comparing Java to Erlang is stupid, because it compares threads to actors, not Java to Erlang. Comparing actors in Java to actors in Erlang is the right thing to […]
No future for functional programming in 2008 - Scala, F# and Nu
59 Comments Published January 21st, 2008 in Erlang, F#, Functional Programming, Haskell, Java, Scala, ScalabilityOn Lambda the ultimte there is a recent post with a language prediction for 2008, which mainly predicts the rise of functional programming and the rise of Scala in particular: “My prediction is a little bit more conservative, but I predict Scala will gain momentum, and at least one high visibility project will use Scala”. […]
