[erlang-questions] why each erlang process sets 233 words as its default heap size?

[Pierpaolo Bernardi]

On 9/20/07, Jeremy Chow <coderplay@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi all,
>       My first instinction is that it want to club together with one process
> size  to reach exactly 1024 bytes . But each process has more than 1024/4
> -233 = 23 words size .
>       What's the author's original intention? why each erlang process  sets
> 233 words as  its default heap size?

The heap size is a fibonacci number.

<guess>
Maybe 233 is the smallest fibonacci number that allows to do something useful.
</guess>

The sequence is: ... 89 144 233 377 610 ...

P.