HiPE: High-performance Erlang

Abstract. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed to ease the development of large-scale distributed soft real-time control applications. It has so far been quite successful in this application domain, despite the fact that its currently available implementations are emulators of virtual machines. In this paper, we improve onthe performance aspects of Erlang implementations by presenting HiPE, a native-code compiler for Erlang. HiPE is a complete implementation of Erlang, o ers exible integration between emulated and native code, and e ciently supports features crucial for Erlang's application domain such as concurrency. As our performance evaluations show, HiPE is currently the fastest among all Erlang implementations.