Akka faster than Erlang

Posted Mon, 26/12/2011 - 16:47 by ittayd
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According to this benchmark, Akka (a Scala actor library) is faster than Erlang by a factor of 2

 

UPDATE: more analysis: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112820434312193778084/posts/HdKFx4VQtJj

Full story:
http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchmarks

Comments

by adi - 26/12/2011 - 17:48

My machine is a lot stronger than his and I got 73670 messages per second (13 times slower).

The reason is that I didn't configure the installation correctly (just ran ./configure; make; make install, instead of something like CFLAGS=-O0 ./configure --enable-hipe --enable-smp-support --enable-threads --enable-kernel-poll --enable-darwin-64bit).

The benchmark is very impressive and definitely proves that (again) Jonas Boner is a genius, but you have to be aware of how Erlang's installation affects the runtime...

by adi - 26/12/2011 - 17:50

 Also - the comments are very interesting...