[erlang-questions] is storing complex objects in ets a good idea?

[Ludovic Coquelle]

Hi,

In my application, I have to store a huge (but sparse) 2D matrix. I
implemented that successfully using dict-of-dict kind of structure.

I was then thinking to use a ets-of-dict structure: each line is a dict
(containing all colum values) and I store each line (a dict) as an entry of
a ets structure.
But I read in the doc introduction of ets that "In the current
implementation, every object insert and look-up operation results in one
copy of the object.". Does this means that each access (even read) to an
element of my matrix would imply a new dict copy?
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