clipka wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> Interestingly though, someone actually wrote a 3D modeller in that language.

Yep. And it's not distributed, either. It uses all one thread, too. Although 
there are features for recompiling it and restarting it without actually 
closing the model you're working on.

> However, this explains why Wings3D goes down to its knees when handling larger
> models... 

That and being "functional" (rather than functional without the quotes, like 
Haskell), meaning in Erlang you have to copy any data structure you want to 
change, without actually being functional enough to make it possible for the 
compiler to optimize based on immutability of variables.

-- 
   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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