Comment by jhogberg
Erlang is JIT compiled since 2021.
Grandparent is also correct in that it tends to be faster than Python et al. If we have a deeper look at the benchmarks [1][2], as long as there is no significant amount of bignum arithmetic (where both call C code) or standard IO involved [3] it's consistently faster than Python, and often by a large margin.
[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
[2]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
[3]: Standard IO goes through several indirections to make it work with remote REPLs; other forms of IO do not suffer from this.
For your convenience:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
> no significant amount of bignum arithmetic
There is none shown in the charts. There is none shown elsewhere apart from where aribitrary precision arithmetic is shown explicitly: pi-digits.