Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP

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It’s amazing! But it says that Erlang will use more memory after this, and it already used too much memory comparing to Go or Node, or even Ruby.
(Of course BEAM does a lot of more work which causes the higher use of memory).

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When would that be an issue DG?

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It may become an issue when the amount of memory available is small, like in Heroku, Gigalixir or some of AWS/GCP instances.

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I thought that’s what you might have meant :slight_smile:

Personally I don’t think that is a worry for the target-users of Elixir/Erlang - those who need massive scale for very busy/large projects. Ram gets cheaper over time too so I’m sure more ram will be reflected in cloud services at the same price point sooner or later :smiley:

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