[erlang-questions] How fast is to retrieve date from ETS table

[Ulf Wiger]

Thanks for correcting me. I thought as much*, but then did some sloppy grep:ing and was misled. :)

I assume it's copy_struct() in one direction (storing) and copy_shallow() in the other?

BR,
Ulf W

* As in, Björn G told me some 5-6 years ago, but I forgot the particulars.

On 11 Jan 2012, at 16:59, Sverker Eriksson wrote:

> Ulf Wiger wrote:
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>> The actual code is in $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator/beam/copy.c (copy_struct()), or:
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>> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam/copy.c#L191
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> Copy from ETS actually uses copy_shallow() which is simpler and even more effective as the term is known to be contained within one continuous block.
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> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam/copy.c#L919
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> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
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