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by jacquesm 1490 days ago
I'm aware of all of that but none of that answers the question.
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It’s suggesting that there’s probably not much of a point to it.
Not for you. But I know quite a bit about the guts of the BEAM VM and I think this is a very interesting development and if the jump is large enough it may well obviate the need for a whole slew of situations where you now have to fall back to externally loaded functions in different languages, and that would make a bunch of stuff far more elegant. Yes, those externally loaded functions will (always) have a speed advantage, but if the advantage drops below the level of the cost of adding an external module then that would be pretty good news.