[erlang-questions] "Fat" BEAMs?

[Richard Carlsson]

This functionality has existed in Igor for the last 15 years or so:

   http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/igor.html#parse_transform-2

The main drawback (apart from the obvious code duplication if you 
include the same module in a lot of other modules) is of course that 
reloading a single module of the included ones won't have any effect; 
you have to replace the whole blob each time.

     /Richard

On 2013-10-10 12:34 , Tony Rogvall wrote:
> Maybe give https://github.com/tonyrog/inline a try?
>
> /Tony
>
> On 10 okt 2013, at 11:56, Olivier BOUDEVILLE <olivier.boudeville@REDACTED
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Let's suppose that, thanks to a parse-transform, we fetched
>> recursively from other modules most if not all code explicitly
>> callable from a given module, so that the full code (ultimately
>> calling only basic language constructs and BIFs) ends up in a single
>> (presumably big, unfolded, possibly inlined) AST.
>>
>> Then, in  the prospect of native compilation (HiPe, possibly others
>> like ErLLVM), I imagine that not only we should get rid of the
>> overhead of inter-module calls, but we would also give to the compiler
>> the best full view on which it could operate and generate the best
>> code it could manage?
>>
>> Has this approach already been attempted? Would it have some potential
>> interest?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any hint,
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Olivier.
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