[erlang-questions] Erlang and Memory management

[Evgeniy Khramtsov]

31.05.2011 19:13, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> My question is: will this Binary term occupy 2 * memory space or is there
> some kind of pointer mechanism to handle it?
>    

As I understand from binary.c, small binaries are kept on a process heap 
(ERL_ONHEAP_BIN_LIMIT = 64), so they will likely be copied. Bigger 
binaries are allocated on shared heap, so only a pointer will be copied.

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