[erlang-questions] Most performant way to store/search a bag

Bob Ippolito bob@REDACTED
Wed May 2 18:54:34 CEST 2012


You could look at how gproc does it, or just use gproc.

On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, AD wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I have a problem where i need to map event_ids to connection objects (for
> use in websockets to broadcast an event).  I am trying to determine the
> most efficient way to map 1 event_id to possibly several thousand
> connection objects.  Ultimately I would need to find every connection
> object mapped to an ID and then send an event to each connection object.
>  Is using an ETS bag and then using ets:foldl() to loop through the most
> optimal ?  I was thinking of breaking down each event_type into a separate
> ETS table and then storing the event_id for that event_type in the
> respective ETS table with the connection object.
>
>  Thoughts welcome.
>
> Thanks
> -AD
>
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