Re: Garbage collection of remote references

[ludovic@demblans.com]

Hi Daniel, 

Thank you for the explaination, it becomes much less of a problem with a fixed set of node names.

Cheers,

- lud 

 
> Hi Ludovic,
> 
> As far as I know references themselves are stored as regular data on the
> heap, and can be garbage collected. However, references (and pids) also
> contain
> <https://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html#new_reference_ext> the
> node on which they were created (an atom). So I believe the documentation
> wants to warn you that decoding a reference may also create an atom in your
> atom table (plus also an entry in the node name to "first number in a pid"
> mapping table, which probably has an official name). which will not be
> garbage collected. The reference itself will be.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Daniel
>