[erlang-questions] refactoring a very large record

[Ladislav Lenart]

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