Having BEAM specifically designed for Erlang concurrency gives it a number of specific benefits. Specifically in how it schedules and handles the VM processes to do efficient concurrency. For example, since the processes are in the VM, it can count the number of function calls to preempt a process that is taking too long.
You can learn more about BEAM here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pwlvy3zz9M&feature=youtu.be http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/708/Hitch...