A High Performance Erlang System
Erik Johansson, Mikael Pettersson and Konstantinos Sagonas
To appear at the 2nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Declarative Programming (PPDP 2000), Montreal, Canada, September 20-22, 2000
Abstract
Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed to
ease the development of large-scale distributed soft real-time control
applications. It has so far been quite successful in this application
domain, despite the fact that its currently available implementations
are emulators of virtual machines.
In this paper, we improve on the performance aspects of Erlang
implementations by presenting HiPE, a native-code compiler for
Erlang. HiPE is a complete implementation of Erlang, offers
flexible integration between emulated and native code, and efficiently
supports features crucial for Erlang's application domain such as
concurrency. As our performance evaluations show, HiPE is
currently the fastest among all Erlang implementations.