[erlang-questions] Ref counted binary in ETS

[Tony Rogvall]

1. A reference.

It will however build a 6-word structure called ProcBin on the heap for every binary reference that you read.
On a 64 bit machine that will lead to a 48 byte overhead. Nearly 10%.

/Tony

> On 27 okt 2016, at 20:47, Frank Muller <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> Suppose an ETS table with only 1 writer and N readers
> This table contains only large binaries (>64B) with the same size 512B exactly.
> 
> The single writer update these Bins once a while.
> The N readers regularly read one of these Bins, but never change/update them.
> 
> Questions: what a reader gets when reading a Bin from this ETS table:
> 
> 1. a reference to that Bin
> 2. or a full copy of that Bin
> 
> Hope someone can clarify this (with an example).
> 
> Thank you
> Frank
> 
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