What are the benefits of using dynamic supervisor when supervisor also has start_child to start workers dynamically?

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I was going through the docs of both supervisor and dynamic supervisor and saw that supervisor also has the function start_child that will allow us to start a worker dynamically using child_spec. Can anyone please elaborate what additional benefits DynamicSupervisor offers us since we can start workers dynamically using Supervisor module as well ?

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here is some background:

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We can already start a child in the normal Supervisor by passing in a child spec so what benefits does DynamicSupervisor give us?

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DynamicSupervisor supports the extra_arguments option, designed to replace the behavior of simple_one_for_one Supervisors.

DynamicSupervisor also supports a max_children option.

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I’d like to cross-reference this topic that helped me understand a little bit more about it, just in case someone else finds this first in the future (like I did): Difference between Supervisors and DynamicSupervisors what am I missing?.

PS.: In summary, DynamicSupervisors is a special module with performance optimizations for this specific use-case (new docs are on the way to make this a bit more clear).

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Hey thanks a lot.

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