[rpm33]

There is already some work out there since Elixir lends perfectly for parallelization of computation and is also immutable. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0h9DURSOo and http://www.automatingthefuture.com/blog/2016/9/7/artificial-...

[rs86]

It won't never be even close to native code because of the BEAM overhead, lack of typing, memory layout. It is suited for concurrency not computationally intensive workloads. Not to mention the use of gpus.