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by foxes 7 days ago
elixir/erlang gets compiled into beam byte code. It's a vm. why does this matter..
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zerr 7 days ago
It's an interpreted byte code run (interpreted) by BEAM. Not a native binary run by CPU.

But apparently BeamAsm JIT solves the issue? As mentioned in the sibling comment.

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foxes 6 days ago
But why does a particular execution model matter?
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zerr 5 days ago
Raw performance.
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