[erlang-questions] Microsoft developer vision - functional programming

[Paul Mineiro]

Perhaps this is a good time to mention the hybrid mode of the emulator?

http://user.it.uu.se/~kostis/Papers/toplas06.pdf

Depending upon your application, it might improve performance.

-- p

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Zvi wrote:

>
> this would work if all the data stored in the global VM heap, but in Erlang
> b/c of Soft Real-Time constraint, each process has it's own heap, so you
> can't just pass pointer to object from another process' heap, which can be
> garbage collected any time.
>  But Erlang have some optimizations, for large binaries, which are stored in
> the global heap, and using reference counting for garbage collection.
>
> Zvi
>
>
> Cameron Kerr-2 wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:42:42PM +0200, Hugh Perkins wrote:
> >
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the benefits of
> > Erlang's (in particular) single-assignment restriction that you only
> > need to pass around a pointer, and never need to copy the data (because
> > the data cannot be modified once it is first assigned). Obviously, you
> > would need to copy the data if sending to a different machine.
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