{"id":1278,"date":"2006-07-05T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/a-taste-of-erlang\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:24:32","slug":"a-taste-of-erlang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/a-taste-of-erlang\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of Erlang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/printerfriendly.asp?p=482670&amp;rl=1\">David Chisnall<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/articles\/printerfriendly.asp?p=482670&amp;rl=1\">\n<p>\nIt used to be that if your code ran quite quickly, a year later you\ncould run it twice as fast for the same amount of money. These days,\nyou&rsquo;re much less likely to get a chip that&rsquo;s twice as fast, but you may\nget one with twice as many cores. If your code is highly parallel, you\ncan just spread it out a bit more.&hellip;Two features of Erlang, both of which\nare built into the language, make it especially suited to writing\nscalable applications: <em>process creation<\/em> and <em>message passing<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Chisnall: It used to be that if your code ran quite quickly, a year later you could run it twice as fast for the same amount of money. These days, you&rsquo;re much less likely to get a chip that&rsquo;s twice as fast, but you may get one with twice as many cores. If your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-22T17:24:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"faa2aa9e-c742-4513-9a55-85fc00ffbefd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-22T17:24:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-qKqnsdCRROaVYX8AP--_Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1797,71],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-erlang-programming-language","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25056,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/25056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}