<div>Are there any benchmarks showing the difference in real applications?</div>
<div>Is this option really useful?<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kostis Sagonas</b> <<a href="mailto:kostis@cs.ntua.gr">kostis@cs.ntua.gr</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Kirill Zaborski wrote:<br>> I have read recently "Heap Architectures for Concurrent Languages<br>> using Message Passing" by Erik Johansson, Konstantinos Sagonas, and
<br>> Jesper Wilhelmsson.<br>> There were proposed 3 different ways to organize memory in Erlang<br>> emulator: process heaps, shared heap and hybrid.<br>> But what is used in current Erlang/OTP? It looks like there was -shared
<br>> switch for erl. What has happened to it?<br><br>Support for the 'shared' architecture has been discontinued. The reason<br>is that most of the benefits that the shared architecture gives can also<br>be obtained by the 'hybrid' architecture, which conceptually is the
<br>best. The hybrid emulator is available in R11B-* and can be started by<br><br> erl -hybrid<br><br>Kostis<br></blockquote></div><br>