Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by willyk 3585 days ago
> And I'm kinda avoiding that on a quad core CPU your > C program is really going to only use one core out > of the box while elixir will use all four.)

I think that's a pretty major factor to avoid -- multicore processors are the immediate/commercial foreseeable future of CPUs, so its not inconsequential that Erlang/Elixir allow you to be able to use cheap processes in order take full advantage of this