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[sk5t]

I think a lot of folks writing low latency code in C, or for the JVM, would be surprised at the suggestion a lack of preemptive scheduler makes their work futile.

[anthony_doan → sk5t]

If those folks enjoys writing low latency code in C for backend... I'm not going to stop them. I'll sit in a corner somewhere and enjoy Elixir.

There's a JVM vs BEAM VM comparison paper (http://ds.cs.ut.ee/courses/course-files/To303nis%20Pool%20.p...).

I believe section 2.2. ERTS of the paper talk about BEAM VM advantage for low latency.

> The per process heap architecture has manybenefits, one of which is that because each pro-cess has it’s own heap and there are presum-ably numerous process’s,...

update:

Ah... I think the relevant part is in 3.3 Lightweight threads.

> 3.3. Lightweight threads

> The effect is that Erlang is one of a fewlanguages that actually does preemptive mul-titasking. The reduction count of 2000, whichis sub 1ms, is quite low and forces many smallcontext switches between the Erlang processes.

[glun → anthony_doan]

Java will get lightweight threads soon. You can google "java fibers".