Well this started as an academic interest project. Erlang is fast for IO and highly concurrent workloads but which have low granularity. It is not that fast for say SIMD type calculations or math operations. So this is a research project to see if it can go faster in those areas.
Currently it is about 50/50 -- some workloads are faster with this back-end some not. Erlang was not designed for Computer Shootout type problems to start with so maybe those don't matter as much but it is always nice to have extra speed just in case (even if for marketing purposes).
Currently it is about 50/50 -- some workloads are faster with this back-end some not. Erlang was not designed for Computer Shootout type problems to start with so maybe those don't matter as much but it is always nice to have extra speed just in case (even if for marketing purposes).