[erlang-questions] refactoring a very large record

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 18:38, Matthew Sackman <matthew@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> I don't know how Erlang does it, but one approach is that from all your
> processes stacks, traverse all pointers and mark all found terms as
> "visited" (transitively). Then, work through everything in the heap and
> anything not marked "visited" can be reclaimed.
>
> With erlang's heap-per-process memory model and plus generational GC, I
> could imagine this would work fairly well, but I've no idea whether this
> is actually what's used.
>

This is what is used, to my knowledge.

-- 
J.