[erlang-questions] bit syntax slower than bit operations

[Kirill Zaborski]

And when is R12B is planned for?

Best regards,
Kirill.

On 01 Sep 2007 23:45:52 +0200, Bjorn Gustavsson <bjorn@REDACTED>
wrote:
>
> Matthias Radestock <matthias@REDACTED> writes:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately, my tests indicate that the latter version is about twice
> > as fast, using R11B-5 under Linux on x86.
> >
> > Does the bit-syntax compilation produce rather inefficient code?
>
> Yes, it could be better.
>
> In fact, I managed to optimize the BEAM instruction for matching out
> an integer from a binary so that decode_compact/1 now runs somewhat
> faster than decode_verbose/1 on my computer (Sparc/Solaris).
> I hope to optimize construction of binaries in the same way.
>
> Those improvements will be included in R12B, as well as other improvements
> and optimizations of the bit syntax that we have been working on.
>
> Thanks for pointing out the problem.
>
> /Bjorn
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> Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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