[erlang-questions] Safe way to cache atoms in NIF: driver_mk_atom replacement

[Lukas Larsson]

If I understand you correctly the answer is yes.

I think the crypto implementation[1] does exactly this and since
Sverker wrote both crypto and the NIF support I would say that it is
safe :)

Lukas

[1] https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/maint/lib/crypto/c_src/crypto.c#L300

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
> Is there a way to cache atoms in NIF?
>
> Is it ok just to store in static variable result of enif_make_atom ?
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