[erlang-questions] beginner: Help needed - Erts overview and map to subsystem to source

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

G Bulmer <gbulmer@REDACTED> writes:

> Bjorn
> 
> Thank you very much for the pointers, especially the tip on R11B ->
> R12B garbage collector change.
> 
> Are the HiPE papers you suggest at:
> http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/publications.shtml and
> http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/documentation.shtml

Yes.

> Do you know, is the HiPE memory management system the same as/similar
> to the 'normal' Erlang run-time, making "Efficient Memory Management
> for Message-Passing Concurrency" a good place to start?

HiPE's code is integrated into Erlang/OTP. The private-heap architecture
(or process-centric architecture) is in the standard Erlang run-time.
The hybrid heap archicture run-time is also included in R11B ("erl -hybrid"),
and the shared heap architecture was in included in earlier releases
of Erlang/OTP.

I think that the beginning of Paper A (especially pages 28-31) are
the most interesting.

/Bjorn

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB