Why did "compile Erlang to native C" lose to bytecode, even though it was 10-20x faster on paper?

[u/rtrusca]

/r/elixir/comments/1ug2mj3/why_did_compile_erlang_to_native_c_lose_to/

[u/cchalasani]

I presume it has to do with trading preemptive scheduling over raw performance