[erlang-questions] Why is erlc so quick to start?

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

2015-01-05 23:21 GMT+01:00 Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@REDACTED>:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Bjorn-Egil Dahlberg wrote:
> > As I mentioned in a previous thread, the start time of escript and
> > erl is to an high degree influenced by the all the modules that
> > needs to be loaded.
>
> More modules, bigger modules (line info).
>
> > This is also why +A0 has an impact.
>
> Just to be clear, you aren't saying +A1 implies loading extra modules,
> are you?
>


No extra modules.



>
> > I have to caution you to use +A0 though. Short-circuiting file
> > operation by using no async-threads may be hazardous to your system.
> > In most cases it is just fine to use it but this is very
> > unpredictable. The schedulers can become very unhappy.
> >
> > We can change the default arguments to escript to mitigate this, for
> > instance:
> > erlang:master...egil/default-escript-arguments
>
> Isn't +sbtu already the default?
>


Yes.


>
> > As for something more rigorous: Dizzy had a proposal of creating
> > escripts with a beam-binary with erlang-archives appended to it. I
> > don't know how far he got but with this. Something like that might
> > go a long way to speed things up.
>
> Never heard of that. Care to elaborate?
>
> The escript archives we create currently are already a header followed
> by a zip archive, but IIRC concatenating beam files also works, though
> I never tried it and just recall the escript loader bits related to
> it.
>

I talked to him recently. I think he dropped the project. If he sees this I
hope he can elaborate on it.

// Björn-Egil
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