Expand All Contract All Chapters Introduction Top of chapter Purpose Prerequisites The Seven Myths of Erlang Performance Top of chapter Myth: Tail-Recursive Functions are Much Faster Than Recursive Functions Myth: Operator "++" is Always Bad Myth: Strings are Slow Myth: Repairing a Dets File is Very Slow Myth: BEAM is a Stack-Based Byte-Code Virtual Machine (and Therefore Slow) Myth: Use "_" to Sp