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User's Guide
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Chapters
- Introduction
- The Eight Myths of Erlang Performance
- Top of chapter
- Myth: Funs are Slow
- Myth: List Comprehensions are Slow
- Myth: Tail-Recursive Functions are Much Faster Than Recursive Functions
- Myth: Operator "++" is Always Bad
- Myth: Strings are Slow
- Myth: Repairing a Dets File is Very Slow
- Myth: BEAM is a Stack-Based Byte-Code Virtual Machine (and Therefore Slow)
- Myth: Use "_" to Speed Up Your Program When a Variable is Not Used
- Common Caveats
- Constructing and Matching Binaries
- List Handling
- Functions
- Tables and Databases
- Processes
- Drivers
- Advanced
- Profiling