Elixir is more focused on concurrent performance than raw performance. It’s still very fast but favors consistency above all else. I remember seeing a great benchmark that compared Elixir to Python and Go where they charted the variability of response times. Python and Go were very spikey with Go producing the fastest overall time. Elixir was extremely steady. Makes it an ideal choice for real time ops, holding millions of web sockets, ensuring a heavy process doesn’t affect the experience of everything else that’s executing.

You’ll also get natural clustering ability and a level of fault tolerance that’s almost silly.

I’ve been trying to find the time to demonstrate this with the tech empower benchmarks honestly. I want to see what will happen if you run all of them at the same time for a particular platform.