http://www.programmersparadox.com/2008/03/30/erlang-garbage-collection/ Long form thoughts from a Software Engineer Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.programmersparadox.com/2008/03/30/erlang-garbage-collection/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Luke Hoersten Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:15:09 +0000 http://www.programmersparadox.com/2008/03/30/erlang-garbage-collection/#comment-275 From what I've heard, Erlang intentionally doesn't over-optimize the compiler or runtime to really drive home how large the scalar value of scaling wide can be. Runtime speed doesn't matter when you have a ton of machines =) From what I’ve heard, Erlang intentionally doesn’t over-optimize the compiler or runtime to really drive home how large the scalar value of scaling wide can be. Runtime speed doesn’t matter when you have a ton of machines =)

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