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		lilyball on March 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joe Armstrong: Solving the wrong problem I've looked at Erlang before, and I would certainly agree that it's far simpler to write a concurrent application in Erlang than it would be in C. I'm just taking issue with the bit at the end, where they're bragging about removing a serial bottleneck by rewriting zlib in Erlang in order to remove a lock. Rewriting it in Erlang really doesn't have anything at all to do with switching to a lock-free data structure.

PixelPusher on March 27, 2013 [–]

Ah yeah, I had to read it a second time to realize what you meant. That's true, that it's a bad example and doesn't make much sense.

I think what they meant to say was that they parallelized the image processing mechanism of the application as a whole.

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