Rickard Green - A deep dive into some aspects of the multicore support in the Erlang VM

The first Erlang virtual machine capable of utilizing multicore and multiprocessor hardware, i.e. the Erlang VM with SMP support, first appeared in 2006. Since then work has been ongoing on improving performance and scalability. The increasing number of cores on common processors makes scalability issues very important. The scalability of the first VM with SMP support was quite modest, but has since then improved immensely and will continue to be improved in the future. During this talk we'll look closer at some scalability issues and how they have been addressed.