[erlang-questions] term_to_binary and message passing

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

Hi,

On 12/28/06, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
> Does this mean that any float I send within the VM will result in a
> 33-byte message?

The external format contains the 131 marker, the float type tag and 31
bytes for the float value (which is encoded as a string with 20
decimals and padded with zeroes at the end).

So if the float is enclosed within another term, you will get away wit
only 32 bytes :-)

regards,
Vlad