[erlang-questions] Change in garbage collector behavior?

[Matthew Dempsky]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 4> B = F(30), ok.
>> ok
>
> For me, this 'ok' means that everything is alright with the execution of
> F, and also with the assignment of its result to B.
>
> Isn't it possible that the shell somehow wants to pass the result in a
> message into another process (and therefore copy it)?

Yeah, this is the same conclusion/hypothesis I've tentatively come to. :-)