Garbage collection of binaries
Thomas Lindgren
thomasl_erlang@REDACTED
Mon Oct 20 11:47:18 CEST 2003
--- Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@REDACTED>
wrote:
> An even more modular approach would be to make the
> binaries normal
> citizens of garbage collected memory. This would
> also simplify the
> emulator code, I'd think :-)
Storing binaries globally means message passing needs
not copy binaries. That was the reason I heard, at
least.
Best,
Thomas
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