On: Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages

[rkangel]

> Also the BEAM bytecode compiler and runtime are incredibly slow and unoptimized

Can you provide any citations for the BEAM runtime being unoptimised? In my experience it has been very carefully optimised over many years, generally prioritising latency over throughput.

[rurban → rkangel]

Citations? I've looked at it, being maintainer of several fast and slow VM's by myself.

I don't see careful optimizations, it's rather sloppy. More like perl and python, unlike lua, php or v8.

[weego → rkangel]

It's widely known that it's IO focused and unoptimised around say maths use cases as it was built to be a zero maintenance telecoms platform

[ch4s3 → weego]

> zero maintenance telecoms platform

More like zero downtime maintenance.