[erlang-questions] Description of Erlang Garbage Collection

Niclas Eklund nick@REDACTED
Fri Apr 8 13:01:06 CEST 2016


Hi!

Use for example - http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/

Nice work Lukas!

/Nick



On 04/08/2016 11:35 AM, Valentin Micic wrote:
> Any chance of getting this in PDF format?
>
> Kind regards
>
> V/
>
> On 08 Apr 2016, at 11:29 AM, Lukas Larsson wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I've long worked on a text that describes in detail exactly how the 
>> Erlang garbage collector works. During the last month I finally took 
>> the time to finish it and also included the changes that have been 
>> made in the current master branch to be released in Erlang/OTP 19.0.
>>
>> You can read the description here: 
>> https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/erlang-19-0-garbage-collector.html
>>
>> I'm personally am very excited about the off_heap message queue 
>> semantics that is coming in 19 and think that it will solve a lot of 
>> problems that systems have had with huge message queues running amok 
>> and also how refc binaries not been garbage collected fast enough. 
>> Also the way that literals are identified from 19 opens up a bunch of 
>> new optimization paths for us as it allows a much more fuzzy 
>> definition of what is the young heap.
>>
>> If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask and I'll 
>> do my best to answere.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Lukas
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