atoms vs. integers

[Lennart Öhman]

Hi!
(a lot cut away... :-)
 > ...
> What about sending these over the wire then in distributed messages to
> other nodes?  I'm going to use Erlang distribution rather than UBF or
 > ...

Try doing term_to_binary/1 on what you intend to send and you'll see what
you are really sending.

> ...
> On a related note, how do bigints compare to just using a tuple of
> small ints or a binary?  I'm thinking about both term storage and
 > ...

http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/doc/efficiency_guide/part_frame.html

Integer (big numbers) 	3..N words
Tuple 	2 words + the size of each element


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