This kind of book is always my favorite kind of books. When you talk about the whole topic and devote a chapter to each topic, you are essentially given a broad and firm grasp of what's going on in your field to your readers.
These kind of books are perfect introductory books.<p>Sincerely, Thank you.
If I read this book, would it be practical to build an Erlang VM targeting GPUs? The Erlang GPU work I've seen provides access via NIFs, but as I understand it, those are going to continue to hit the PCI-E bottleneck. I'm speculating about the feasibility of Erlang putting its "processes" onto the GPU cores, and the data staying on the GPU until it needed to do network, disk, or other OS mediated access.<p>If the question is ignorant, I plead guilty.
My only complaint is that the PDF is formatted for print and uses typographic ligatures. To me, HTML-first makes sense for anything intended for widespread digital sharing. Reflowing and screen reading text are minimum <i>design</i> accommodations for a large number of people because of physical or hardware limitations.<p>Or to put it another way, I think that over the long run, such features are more important than the license because there are non-technical work arounds for the license that don't require duplicated effort.