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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, an open-source 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.