Erlang is faster and more feature rich. One thing you can do in an erlang view that you can't do in javascript is file:delete(AnyPathYourServerCanAccess), which is why we disable it by default. :)
Building a view is inherently serial regardless of the language evaluating each update. B. On 14 August 2013 18:02, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > Erlang server bypassed stdio interface communication and addtional > JSON decode/encode roundtrip, so it is faster than JS at some point. > Also, having Erlang with SMP feature enabled may also improve his > performance if you have multicore server. > > How much? No numbers I have, just an experience background. You can > measure it with you functions and data and share with us (: > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Stanley Iriele <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm curious... What exactly is the performance gain from writing >> views/shows/ etc in Erlang vs JavaScript... From what I've seen the >> JavaScript view server is sufficiently fast and feature complete. >> >> So my question is this.... Is the Erlang view server that much faster?... >> Is there another gain that I'm missing?..and is it as feature complete as >> the JavaScript equivalent? >> >> Regards, >> >> Stanley
