[erlang-questions] a question about NIFs

[Ilya Shcherbak]

Hello akonsu,

actually it will be work ok.


2013/11/18 akonsu <akonsu@REDACTED>

> hello,
>
> I am looking at different erlang parsers for JSON, and many resources that
> I found on the web reference jiffy (https://github.com/davisp/jiffy) as
> one among the "fastest" parsers. I am skeptical about this, having read
> articles about NIFs such as these linked from
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18178542/why-does-the-nif-function-block-the-erlang-vm-from-scheduling-other-processes.
> I am planning to run the parser in multiple worker processes, and it is
> essential that the parser cooperates with the VM scheduler. Since I am new
> to Erlang, I have no idea how to check this, so my question, I think, is
> whether NIFs by definition are agnostic of the scheduler, thus interfering
> with the normal VM activity.
>
> thanks in advance
> konstantin
>
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