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ksec on June 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Little Schemer Exercises in Elixir

Is BEAM slower due to the constrain bound by the concurrency model, or could one day BEAM gets further improved to the point close to JAVA?

derefr on June 26, 2015 [–]

AFAIK, there's nothing stopping BEAM from being as fast at math and so forth as the JVM is (both being JITing bytecode interpreters.) It's just that nobody has really bothered to optimize it for that use-case.

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