The main advantage of using records instead of tuples is that fields in a record are accessed by name, whereas fields in a tuple are accessed by position. To illustrate these differences, suppose that ...

Erlang is designed for massive concurrency. Erlang processes are light-weight (grow and shrink dynamically) with small memory footprint, fast to create and terminate and the scheduling overhead is low ...

High Performance Erlang (HiPE) is part of ordinary Open Source Erlang. It allows compiling Erlang modules to native code. Erjang is an experimental Erlang VM implemented in Java. Erlang to Scheme ...

A distributed Erlang system consists of a number of Erlang runtime systems communicating with each other. Each such runtime system is called a node. Message passing between processes at different ...