<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Lukas.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 07 Jun 2021, at 15:16, Lukas Larsson <<a href="mailto:lukas@erlang.org" class="">lukas@erlang.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:04 PM Valentin Micic <<a href="mailto:v@micic.co.za" class="">v@micic.co.za</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">Put differently, is there any difference between internal and external term presentation?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They are very different. The internal representation is larger in size but faster to navigate/manipulate. They also have very different requirements that make them different.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can read more about the external term format here: <a href="https://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html" class="">https://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html</a></div><div class="">And the internal format here: <a href="https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#CH-TypeSystem" class="">https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#CH-TypeSystem</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lukas</div></div></div>
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