[surferbayarea]

Have you even used zlib in c++? The largest ecommerce site out there uses zlib in a multitreaded c++ application(24 cores, 100s of threads, 1000s requests/sec/server) and it works just fine! Bet you erlang can't come within a tenth of the performance of c++...

[coldtea]

>1000s requests/sec/server

That's not particularly impressive you know.

[surferbayarea]

yes, because it also does other computation. Poiint was to illustrate that zlib can be used in a concurrent computing setting with high performance. The blog writer had claimed that zlib doesn't work in a multithreaded setting.

[querulous]

whatsapp is approaching 3 million simultaneous connected users on a single server using erlang