The Ref Trick 126 words A common Erlang performance issue is that selective receives can take a lot of time when the receiving process has a long message-queue. R14 …
disk_log vs file 168 words I’ve been wondering about the overhead incurred by using Erlang’s disk_log (instead of plain old file) for simple, append-only term storage. …
HiPE byte arrays 80 words Mutable byte arrays are one of Erlang’s most under-appreciated features. The byte array BIFs are defined in erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif0.c – …
Equality and the Erlang standard library 229 words Erlang’s notion of equality can be confusing, especially when dealing with numeric types. Recall the Erlang term order: number < atom < …
