addressing a lot of processes

[Gaspar Chilingarov]

Matthias Lang wrote:
>  > On 20 May 2005, at 16:23, Gaspar Chilingarov wrote:
> 
>  > > For now, I've implemented sample manager, which maps IP(string) to PID
>  > > using gb_trees. In another hand, I've seen sample in some erlang
>  > > sources, to register process under unique name say ip_127.0.0.1,
>  > > ip_127.0.0.2 etc.
>  > >
>  > > This leads to generating the new atoms in runtime, and I'm conscious 
>  > > that erlang's GC will not clean them if they are unused. Am I right?
> 
> IP(string) and IP(atom) aren't the only representations. In this case,
> IP(tuple) would also make sense, and the conversion is easy:
> 
>   {ok, Tuple} = inet:getaddr(String, inet)
> 
> IP(integer) is another possibility, i.e.
> 
>   {ok, {A,B,C,D}} = inet:getaddr(String, inet),
>   Integer = (A bsl 24) + (B bsl 16) + (C bsl 8) + D.
> 
> Then you don't have to worry about the atom table _and_ you have a
> useful representation.
> 
> Matthias
> 


in case if I use atoms I can write smthing like this

try
     ip_127_0_0_1  ! { processNewData, SomeData }
catch
     Any ->
  	createAndRegisterNewProcess(127_0_0_1)
         ip_127_0_0_1  ! { processNewData, SomeData }
end


This will perform lookup not in Erlang data structure - gb_tree in my 
case, but in erlangs internal table, which should be faster.
In case that ~ have limited set of ip's which should be processed, I 
think I can avoid trashing of atoms table.

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