Benchmarks - how important are they to you? To Elixir?

[AstonJ]

@al2o3cr

TBH reading into the shenanigans around Actix and some of the other “top speed” competitors has negatively affected my opinion of Techempower in particular because it’s gotten so artificial; like 1000HP supercars that are fun to drive on a track but get 25 miles to a tank of gas.

In fairness to Actix, while they were doing stuff that isn’t considered best practice in Rust, it is (iirc anyway) being used in production by Microsoft. I think this further supports the need for different categories in such benchmarks, so one for what is typical of that language or framework, and another where you can hack things to your heart’s content to squeeze every last drop of performance This would help people see what they can get out of a system from the get go, and what the potential of it could be at a later stage.

@Qqwy

In general runtime- and/or memory-efficiency is not usually the most important factor in the apps I am building on a day to day basis…

I’s agree that for 90% of apps most languages would probably suffice, however, for some strange reason we seem to be attracted to the promise of more. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing tho - having ambitious plans for a project will probably (imo) lead to a more polished product because the developers may be much more passionate about it

Edit:

I took a trip down memory lane via an old MetaRuby thread (which was funnily enough after looking for a thread to link to in this recent thread - funny how one thing can lead to another )) and this was one of the graphics that was part of the whole hype/excitement:

There are lots of comments about Elixir being like “Ruby on steroids ” etc …so I’m more certain than ever that they (/the performance aspect) plays (or played, at least back then) an important part…