[erlang-questions] sharing a binary when decoding?

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On 2/3/12 2:12 PM, Anthony Shipman wrote:
> What I have in mind will have large binaries that are decoded from 
> socket data. I was hoping that this wouldn't duplicate the data. 
The binary might be compressed and in that case it is not possible to 
use the sub-binary representation. In other words, you are not 
guaranteed that it uses sub-binaries, but an implementation may choose 
to do so in some cases.

My recommendation would be to decode once and then go with that. 
Decoding is usually extremely fast.

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Jesper Louis Andersen
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