[erlang-questions] string in functions and memory allocation

[Hynek Vychodil]

Constants (literals) are allocated in constant pool since Erlang
R12B-0 so it will not be constructed in each function call.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Paolo Negri <paolo.negri@REDACTED> wrote:
> Dear list
>
> I have a newbie question regarding the following 2 (dummy) functions
>
> dummy(Proplist)
>    Value = proplist:get_value(<<"booo">>),
>    Value
> .
>
> dummy_string(Proplist)
>    Value = proplist:get_value("booo"),
>    Value
> .
>
> What I would like to know it's how calling these functions an elevate
> number of times would affect memory allocation and garbage collection,
> I'm asking because in other languages something like dummy_string
> would allocate a new string at every call that would then need to be
> garbage collected.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Paolo
>
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