November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
15h 8m
English
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Chapter 14. Optimization and performance
There is no such thing as fast, only fast enough
Joe Armstrong
This chapter covers
- How to approach performance tuning
- Profiling your code using cprof and fprof
- Caveats and pitfalls of the Erlang programming language
Optimization should only be on your mind when you know you need to shave off those extra milliseconds or kilobytes. That is what the Erlware team needs to do right now. It turns out that having a repository of Erlang software available for download is something that lots of people want. With the improved speed and functionality of the site, thanks in part to the simple cache you’ve implemented, more and more people are hitting the erlware.org site. Efficiency is once again starting to become ...