[erlang-questions] max_heap_size option

[Ulf Wiger]

erlang:spawn_opt() has a 'min_heap_size' option for performance tuning.  
This has turned out to be very useful in practice, esp. in cases where you  
know that a process is going to need a big heap fairly quickly.

How about adding a 'max_heap_size' option?

I just finished adding memory supervision to erlhive. In erlhive, it's  
doable, since I'm doing code transformations anyway, but it obviously adds  
overhead, since it's done in Erlang code.

I haven't studied the C code to figure out how it could be implemented.  
Perhaps doing a check once GC is finished, and throwing an exception if  
the limit is exceeded, would be simplest?

BR,
Ulf W
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Ulf Wiger