[erlang-questions] : Was Re: Bug ?! now Erlang comment (LONG LONG)

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

"Bob Ippolito" <bob@REDACTED> writes:

[...]
> I started doing this by
> -define()'ing a big static tuple, but I've noticed that the VM does a
> very bad job if you stick a giant constant tuple in a function whose
> sole purpose is to pull a record out of it. For some reason the tuple
> gets allocated and deallocated a lot, rather than being constant in
> the module (HiPE optimized this case correctly, but I don't always
> compile with HiPE).

We are working on that. A future release will support a constant pool
for each module.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB