[erlang-questions] Current term representation?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

On 15 Jul 2008, at 6:23 am, Richard Carlsson wrote:
> Look in the file erts/emulator/beam/erl_term.h for the tag
> scheme; the comments are fairly detailed.

I was aware of that file, but there is a lot of detail not
explained, and there's one detail I have a hard time believing.
Can it really be true that empty tuples {} are heap allocated
"boxed" objects?
>
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> > In particular, how are funs represented?
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> The definition of the struct ErlFunThing is found in the file
> erts/emulator/beam/erl_fun.h.

Thanks.  I'd missed that one.

As for the rest, it's what I _thought_ was the case, but I was
hoping I was wrong.