[lpil]

> but if something's based on BEAM, the throughput generally won't impress

I'm not sure where you're getting that from- that's typically the area it does well. It's bad at number crunching, but you if the work is IO bound (say, like a web application backend) it offers consistently low latency with high throughput.

[Scramblejams]

We're defining throughput differently. I'm talking about CPU utilization, i.e. non-IO-bounded work. Sorry for the ambiguity.