RE: Interpreter vs hardware threads

From: William Chesters (williamc@paneris.org)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 14:42:34 MET

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    Edwin Young writes:
    > From: William Chesters [mailto:williamc@paneris.org]
    > > Judging by Max's .sig he's doing embedded telecoms boxes,
    > > something like a GSM HLR which juggles many thousands of concurrent
    > > transactions in some ghastly protocol or other.
    >
    > If that's the case, perhaps he should investigate Erlang. Since it was
    > designed by Ericsson specifically for embedded telephony apps, it would seem
    > an ideal fit. It does indeed support thousands of concurrent threads
    > (internal to the interpreter rather than OS-based).

    Absolutely, and Erlang looked great to me, except (ironically) I
    couldn't help feeling that the lack of imperative data structures was
    going to be a bit of a pain. However they were apparently going to
    fix that.



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