Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by josep2 » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

I'd buy it. Doing some Erlang and Elixir stuff at the moment and need as many tips as I can get.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by jules » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 3:57 PM UTC

I would not write performance sensitive code in Erlang, so no. I'd be more interested in a book about distributed programming than a book about optimization.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by regularfry » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 4:24 PM UTC

Definitely. The ins-and-outs of how binaries and GC interact are particularly interesting to me.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by farresito » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

regularfry wrote: post #13

Definitely. The ins-and-outs of how binaries and GC interact are particularly interesting to me.

This book hasn't been released yet, but it seems quite interesting and might be useful: http://www.amazon.com/Erlang-Run-Time-System-Erik-Stenman/dp...

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

#15

Post by gnuwilliam » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 4:49 PM UTC

I'd buy it!

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

#16

Post by ludwig » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:00 PM UTC

Where is the preorder page? :)

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

#17

Post by davelnewton » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

jules wrote: post #12

I would not write performance sensitive code in Erlang, so no. I'd be more interested in a book about distributed programming than a book about optimization.

I'm pretty sure the things where Erlang is a good fit would be the target, no? E.g., it's not going to be about doing your numerical computation--but it might be about using it to distribute it.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by jules » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

davelnewton wrote: post #17

jules wrote: post #12

I would not write performance sensitive code in Erlang, so no. I'd be more interested in a book about distributed programming than a book about optimization.

I'm pretty sure the things where Erlang is a good fit would be the target, no? E.g., it's not going to be about doing your numerical computation--but it might be about using it to distribute it.

Isn't that what I said? That was what I tried to convey in any case.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

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Post by dizzy3gg » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

bet365.

Re: Ask HN: Who is interested in a book about high performance Erlang?

#20

Post by wunki » Wed, Aug 12, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

Would buy it! Just picking up Erlang and loving it so far. Would love to learn more on performance as well.