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28 Jul 2024 22:18:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity: status & SMP idea  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Dec 2008 12:51:01
Message: <494fd385$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> I heard tell that Erlang is a good language to write distributed code, too...

It's interpreted and dynamically typed, so it's certainly not something you 
want to try to write *fast* distributed code in. Erlang is distributed for 
reliability, not speed.  (And, FWIW, it's known to suck at floating point 
ops, too.)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.


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