An aside, FreeBSD and BEAM are a great combo in particles dtrace support is excellent. I’m happy to answer any questions there if you need help.
Also your escript probably isn’t really a compiled task; try putting it into a module, compiling that, and timing the execution of the module+function from a running vm. Not only is this a more typical scenario, you can start comparing running 1000 parallel runs vs that of python. It’s going to be very clear that a forked worker uses 100x the memory vs the Elixir one, and with better response times.
An artificial benchmark may not give you practical comparisons vs real world running code. But trying to understand the difference can be very instructive.
Finally you may not realise but this thread has the creator of the language, a core contributor to the VM, and people with a decade of production erlang replying. Getting this level of expertise on a random topic is not unusual on the erlang world. We are very lucky.
PS post your escript and let’s see what we can do with it.
