[erlang-questions] halfword emulator state

[Attila Rajmund Nohl]

Maybe because that's not Erlang word size, but machine word size :-)
What I've found strange is that erlang:process_info returns the heap
size in words but erlang:system_info shows the memory used by
processes in bytes.

2011/5/31, Björn-Egil Dahlberg <wallentin.dahlberg@REDACTED>:
> Perhaps the vanilla x86_64 beam should be called doubleword beam. And no
> halfword.
>
>  It always struck me as strange that erlangs wordsize was dependent on what
> machine it was running on.
>
> // Björn-Egil
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 31 maj 2011 kl. 07:10 skrev OvermindDL1 <overminddl1@REDACTED>:
>
>
> On May 30, 2011 9:47 PM, "Jeff Schultz" <jws@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:38:57PM +1200, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>> > On 31/05/2011, at 8:20 AM, Paolo Negri wrote:
>> > > I would like to assess the state of development and recommended usage
>> > > of the halfword emulator.
>>
>> > Could I just make the point that "halfword" is confusing?
>> > I thought it referred to 16-bit units of something.
>> > It might be clearer if called the "small pointer emulator"
>> > or something like that.
>>
>> Or "compact pointer emulator" or "compact address emulator."
>>
>>
>>    Jeff Schultz
>
> Was it not only for 64bit, hence a halfword will only be 32bit, not 16bit?
>
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