Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding actually experimented with compiling Erlang to Strand. I'm not familiar with all of the details, but I believe they saw a factor of six speedup as compared to the Prolog implementation [0], but deemed the project a failure because of the complexity involved in restricting Strand's parallelism and failure to meet their target of a 70x speedup [1].
I'm actually sharing this in the first place because I managed to acquire a copy of "Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming" [2] yesterday, and it includes a case study about the Erlang -> Strand compiler, so I've been having fun trying to piece together the lineage.
Yup! The original Prolog implementation is described in "Use of Prolog for developing a new programming language" [0], and took place in 1986. After performance eventually became an issue, they cross-compiled Erlang to a few other concurrent languages (Strand included), before opting to directly implement Erlang in C.
I'm actually sharing this in the first place because I managed to acquire a copy of "Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming" [2] yesterday, and it includes a case study about the Erlang -> Strand compiler, so I've been having fun trying to piece together the lineage.
[0] https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
[1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-September/...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Strand-New-Concepts-Parallel-Programm...