[erlang-questions] Deforesting tuple updates

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> writes:

> I remember that the update is performed destructively when the tuple  
> is indexed with an integer or something like that. I would like to  
> change this to generally use destructive tuple updates.
> 

Do you also plan to implement a write barrier in the garbage collector
at the same time? If not, you are likely to get some nasty emulator crashes.

/Bjorn

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB