[erlang-questions] Deforesting tuple updates

[Daniel Luna]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Joel Reymont wrote:
> The reason I bring this up, btw, has to do with trading systems.
> These traditionally use time series implemented on top of arrays. To
> calculate a moving average of prices you would allocate an array of N
> elements and then destructively update it.
>
> I know that you could implement the same thing with gb_trees, ETS,
> etc. but I don't think these are optimal solutions. I have no doubt
> I'll prove it so in the course of AlgoKit implementation.

I really shouldn't say this...

As long as the values in the array are simple terms, you can use 
hipe_bifs:bytearray/2.

You never heard this from me.

/Luna
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