Comment by college_physics
4 years ago
I dont know much at all about erlang but if it cracked this shouldnt it be more prominent in HPC type applications? Is there some other tradeoff?
4 years ago
I dont know much at all about erlang but if it cracked this shouldnt it be more prominent in HPC type applications? Is there some other tradeoff?
There were some tradeoffs that caused heavy computations to be a concern for many years. Elixir Nx recently tackled the problem and is probably a worthwhile read if you're curious.
https://github.com/elixir-nx
https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-and-machine-learning-nx-v0.1
It's slow, so while concurrency is great, it will never replace the core libraries written in C, C++, or FORTRAN.