Exploring Performance Improvements in Elixir and BEAM

definitive_solutions raises questions about the potential for performance improvements in the BEAM compiler and runtime which power Elixir and other BEAM languages. The discussion focuses on the possibilities and limitations for making programs written in these languages faster and more memory-efficient. The author acknowledges that while BEAM languages like Elixir are generally not expected to match the raw speed of languages like C or Rust, there may still be room for optimizations. Questions are posed about the difficulty of generating faster binaries and reducing memory footprints, the necessity of significant efforts or rewrites, and the impact of integrations with other languages such as Rust or Zig. The author also contemplates whether new approaches, like the compilers behind Mojo or using nx for regular computations, could be leveraged. It is emphasized that the current performance of Elixir is satisfactory for most real-world applications, and the ecosystem is robust and meets a wide range of needs.