[erlang-questions] Cost of Copy

[Robert Raschke]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Henning Diedrich <hd2010@REDACTED>wrote:

> Thanks a lot James!
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> am I right then to conclude that mutating something in a list will be the
> faster the more the data is spread out deeper over several levels?
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You can't mutate! So your examples don't really make sense.

You can only build new structures. You cannot change them once their built.
For mutation you need to look at ets, dets, mnesia, processes and messages.

Robby