It's almost a little disappointing that beefy modern servers only manage a x5 scale improvement, though that could be due to the differences in runtime behaviour between Erlang and the JVM.
I mean... is 5M very impressive? Not really. Does it show that Project Loom meets the goal of being able to do large client count thread per server workloads? I think so. Does the name remind me of a best selling point and click adventure game? Definitely yes.
It's almost a little disappointing that beefy modern servers only manage a x5 scale improvement, though that could be due to the differences in runtime behaviour between Erlang and the JVM.