How I avoid giving in to requests under pressure
How often do you say “yes” to something over the phone, and then regret it the instant you hang up?
ReadAre Ports Fast Enough? - Benchmarking Language Interop with Elixir
Ports are one of the main ways that Elixir can communicate with programs written in other languages. When you use a port, the VM spawns another OS process and communicates with it over stdin and stdout. Since this is the simplest way to do IPC between Elixir and other languages, I did some very informal benchmarks to find out if it's fast enough for my Elixir-based game engine.
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