[erlang-questions] refactoring a very large record

Ladislav Lenart lenartlad@REDACTED
Thu Oct 20 17:12:51 CEST 2011


On 20.10.2011 16:52, Michael Uvarov wrote:
>> Doesn't the record tuple keep pointers to each element and only updates changes the modified pointers on update?
> It is true only for long binaries.

Just to be crystal clear. On every update a whole new tuple
is created. In your case that means to allocate a tuple for
80 cells (pointers). The contents (pointers) of the unchanged
cells are copied from the old tuple and the modified ones
are set to new values.


HTH,

Ladislav Lenart




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