[erlang-questions] How small could an Erlang emulator be?

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

"Joe Armstrong" <erlang@REDACTED> writes:

> So if we threw out bignums and floats and designed a very compact object
> code - (huffman) then it could be very small.

The Beam code is quite compact before it is loaded. It would be possible
to implement an alternate loader that would load the code in more compact
way (at the expense of speed).

/Bjorn

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB