[erlang-questions] Dynamic Code and Atoms

[Peer Stritzinger]

You can increase the maximum number of atoms by passing the +t option 
to the emulator:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html#atoms

Not sure how to pass emulator options to erlc but you can use something like:

erl +t <numberofatoms> -compile Mod1 Mod2

or also use -make if you want to.

Cheers,
-- Peer


On 2014-01-23 16:38:57 +0000, Vance Shipley said:

> I don't necessarily need to do what I am doing, it just works quite 
> well ... up to a point. The alternative involves a lot of list 
> processing. Clause head matching on the other hand is really fast. My 
> challenge is to match a very large number of patterns and to do it very 
> fast and with the lowest cost.
> On Jan 23, 2014 9:04 PM, "Anthony Ramine" <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:
> Sorry I didn’t reply to all the first time, putting the list back in the loop.
> 
> Probably this problem was never encountered before. Do you really need 
> to do whatever you are doing like this?
> 
> --
> Anthony Ramine
> 
> Le 23 janv. 2014 à 16:29, Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> a écrit :
> 
> > I'm well aware of the limits on the atom table, how to change it and 
> that it's not garbage collected.
> >
> > I'm not creating these atoms in my abstract forms. It appears to be 
> core Erlang (cerl) which is creating atoms.
> > On Jan 23, 2014 8:50 PM, "Anthony Ramine" <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Yes and no, the atom table being limited in size is by design (cf. EEP20).
> >
> > What are you compiling, though, to reach such a limit? That sounds 
> completely insane to me.
> >
> > --
> > Anthony Ramine
> >
> > Le 23 janv. 2014 à 15:54, Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> a écrit :
> >
> > > I am finding that when I dynamically build a function with
> > > a very large number of clauses the emulator crashes while
> > > compilig (cmpile:forms/2) after hitting the atom table limit.
> > > Looking at a erl_crash_.dump I can see that it was filling up
> > > the atom table with 'corN' where N is an ever increasing number.
> > >
> > > Is this a design limitation?
> > >
> > > --
> > >       -Vance
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