Experience report: Erlang in acoustic ray tracing
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
9-1-2008
Abstract
We investigated the relative merits of C++ and Erlang in the implementation of a parallel acoustic ray tracing algorithm for the U.S. Navy. We found a much smaller learning curve and better debugging environment for parallel Erlang than for pthreads-based C++ programming. Our C++ implementation outperformed the Erlang program by at least 12x. Attempts to use Erlang on the IBM Cell BE microprocessor were frustrated by Erlang's memory footprint. Copyright © 2008 ACM.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Volume
43
Issue
9
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Convey, Christian, Christopher Gagner, Andrew Fredricks, Douglas Maxwell, and Lutz Hamel. "Experience report: Erlang in acoustic ray tracing." ACM SIGPLAN Notices 43, 9 (2008): 115-118. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cs_facpubs/87
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