[erlang-questions] pushing a dict in the constant pool

[Anthony Molinaro]

You could use ct_expand in the parse_trans package

https://github.com/esl/parse_trans

and have something like

get_my_dict () ->
  ct_expand:term (
    dict:from_list ([{foo, bar}, {baz, bop}])
  ).

Then your dictionary gets expanded at compile time.  This is assuming
you can define the dictionary at compile time.

-Anthony

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 06:43:22PM +0100, Paolo Negri wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I would like to know if there's a way to get a dict to be stored in
> the constant pool
> 
> For a list I would do
> 
> get_useful_list() ->
>   [my, useful, ubiquitous, list]
> .
> 
> But if I would like to have a similar function to get a dict (with up
> to few hundreds entries), how would it look like?
> My reason to look into this is in order to be able to efficiently
> distribute constant and immutable configuration data to thousands of
> processes and provide constant time lookup.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Paolo
> 
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