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Faster and less memory intensive[1] and has a type system. [1]: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
Hummm... I do agree that Haskell will be faster and less memory intensive than erlang, but this benchmark is not really significant... I am not going to use erlang to write a mandelbrot...
Yeah, it could well be that you just care about latency hiding on e.g. network services. For that raw compute and memory is much less important than having a reasonable thread scheduler and cheap threads.