[erlang-questions] pid to integer and back

[Hynek Vychodil]

And what about term_to_binary?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

> Is there a safe and efficient way to convert pid to integer and back?
>
> I'm assigning each running poker game an integer id. I store this id
> into every outgoing packet so there's no database lookup.
>
> I use the id to lookup the game process for every incoming packet,
> though. This is proving to be extremely inefficient, even with dirty
> mnesia reads.
>
> I actually repeat the above for every player, so there's twice the
> overhead. Is there a way to avoid it?
>
> This would only apply to running games and connected players so this
> would be a temporary integer, valid while the process is alive.
>
>        Thanks, Joel
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