[erlang-questions] Best Practice in Map keys: Atoms or Binaries (or Strings)?

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg XB]

On 10/03/2016 11:06 AM, José Valim wrote:
>
>     Also, for literal keys the hashing is done at *load time* so it
>     will only hash again when it that hash exhausted, typically this
>     will happen if Maps are larger then 50000 pairs.
>
>
> Neat. Does this happen only on maps creation or also when updating 
> maps with := or =>? What about matching on maps?

Any get_map_element(s) so matching and lookups with literals for sure. 
We haven't done it for updating or creation but lookups are far more 
common. Also, not for BIFs.

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