[erlang-questions] sharing config via a dynamically compiled module?

[Benoit Chesneau]

> On 28 Oct 2017, at 08:38, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Take a look at thread nearby.
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> > All literals belong to a loaded module instance. When that (old) module instance is purged, all process heaps are scanned and heaps containing those literals will do a special garbage collection where the literals are copied.
> 
> Each config change may lead to rescanning heaps of all processes.
> 
> 
> Frankly speaking global ets is much easier =)
> 


Right. One another advantage to ETS i that you can store any terms even refs where it's not possible . At the cost of increasing the number of ETS tables used though...

- benoît