A high performance Erlang system
Erik M. J. Johansson, Mikael Pettersson, Konstantinos Sagonas · 2000
Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed to ease the development of large-scale distributed soft real-time control applications.It has so far been quite successful in this application domain, despite the fact that its currently available implementations are emulators of virtual machines.In this paper, we improve on the performance aspects of Erlang implementations by presenting HiPE, an open-source native code compiler for Erlang.HiPE is a complete implementation of Erlang, oers exible integration between emulated and native code, and eciently supports features crucial for Erlang's application domain such a s c o ncurrency.As our performance evaluations show, HiPE is currently the fastest among all Erlang implementations.