Performance Measurements of Threads in Java and Processes in Erlang

arthurk · on Aug 20, 2009

This is funny. 30 people really voted this article up just because of "Erlang" in the title.

The article is from 1998 and the benchmarks were done on Win95. The CPU was a 200MHz Pentium MMX.

keefe · on Aug 20, 2009

Of particular note in the outdated camp is that Java completely overhauled concurrency in 1.5 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent... and they're using all of Java 1.1...

josephruscio · on Aug 20, 2009

Yeah, I'm not a Java fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but an 10+ year-old benchmark running on an obsolete JVM running on an obsolete OS, running on obsolete hardware (multi-core what?) are not horribly relevant to making technology decisions today.

wmf · on Aug 20, 2009

BTW this is 10 years obsolete. I appreciate an Erlang mob as much as the next hacker, but there must be better Erlang links than this.