After looking at the differences between the two languages lets put elixir s and ruby s characteristics into best use cases.
Elixir vs ruby benchmark.
Before we get into code samples and benchmark results let s answer a few common questions about these kinds of tests.
It won t make much sense unless you ve read the original.
Go ahead this will still be here when you get back.
The elixir versions are a fold and a recursive function those are three very different algorithms.
Jruby should definitely be considered for any rails deployment.
Like many other elixir enthusiasts i come from a ruby.
Ruby is a language of careful balance.
Benchmarking phoenix vs rails vs sinatra vs express vs martini.
This is the second post in our elixir vs ruby showdown series.
The ruby version is an imperative side effecting impure stateful loop.
A dynamic interpreted open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity.
This question becomes increasingly interesting as ruby 3 0 aims.
Now a little than a year later 13 5 months let s see how the different contestants have improved in the time passed.
Fast forward to present day and the elixir vs ruby debate has been solved.
A little more than a year ago i published a blog post benchmarking different ruby implementations against a bot that plays go which i wrote.
In this latest installment we re exploring the performance of the phoenix and rails web frameworks when put up against the same task.
The winner for ruby performance testing was jruby.
Elixir provides developers access to super fast concurrent testing with relatively minimal impact on hardware performance.
We have switched completely to elixir and thought it was one of the most important and best decisions we have made for our business.
As we all know for comparison you need.
Elixir leverages the erlang vm known for running low latency distributed and fault tolerant systems while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.
When it comes to websockets clojure elixir and go are all choices that balance great performance with ease of development.
Ruby vs elixir vs go.
So i have decided to a make a smaller experiment with ruby to know more about its performance side.
Though still far behind the other contestants jruby more than doubled the performance of mri.
In this benchmark test we compare three web application servers go node and elixir by subjecting each to a synthetic workload first with 10k and later with 100k connections to simulate a generic web application client and server behavior we have devised the following synthetic workload.
High traffic applications messages chats etc applications with 100 1000000 simultaneous connections on a single computer.