[erlang-questions] Receive with priority [yet again]

[Álvaro]

Thanks a lot Scott.

No 'recv_mark' or 'recv_set' operators appear, so I must look for a
workaround... :-(

Cheers,
Álvaro

2013/1/24 Scott Lystig Fritchie <fritchie@REDACTED>

> Álvaro <avalormaquedano@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> am> This function will be called periodically and I need to know if this
> am> implementation will always go through all the message in the mailbox
> am> (i.e. it will try to match Pattern1 to the messages at the beginning
> am> of the mailbox over and over again).
>
> Álvaro, compile your module using "erlc -S", then look at the BEAM
> assembly for your function ... if the operators 'recv_mark' and
> 'recv_set' appear (where the argument for recv_set is the same as the
> argument for recv_mark), then the function will not scan all messages in
> the mailbox.  If you do not see them, then a full mailbox scan will be
> done.
>
> -Scott
>
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