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Hi Authors,

1. How Erlang works with the multiple cores?

2. How would you compare Erlang with other programming languages in terms of performance.Is there any performance benchmark(s) available?
 
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1. Erlang naturally scales to multiple cores because it runs a process scheduler per-core and

2. Erlang does poorly on benchmarks that don't reflect the characteristics of software that makes money:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/erlang.php

I am not sure of benchmarks of web applications and similar business software or SaaS software that would better predict its usefulness for profit.
 
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Yes, micro-benchmarks like the language shootout aren't really useful for evaluating the sort of use cases that Erlang was meant for.

Here is a presentation that shows the performance advantages of using Erlang: http://www.slideshare.net/Arbow/comparing-cpp-and-erlang-for-motorola-telecoms-software (Basically, Erlang totally outperformed C++ for this kind of application, and with much smaller code size.)
 
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Thanks Alain and Richard for sharing the information.

Richard Carlsson wrote:Basically, Erlang totally outperformed C++ for this kind of application, and with much smaller code size


I'd like to give it a try
 
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