[erlang-questions] Benchmarking Erlang: Deathmatch of gb_trees, dict, ets, mnesia ... and registered names

[Serge Aleynikov]

This doesn't make sense as calling is_process_alive/1 on a non-local Pid 
would throw an exception (meaning that all your pids are on the local 
node since you are not getting one).

Joel Reymont wrote:
> lookup(N) ->
>      P = global:whereis_name(N),
>      true = is_process_alive(P),
>      lookup(N - 1).
> 
> This should be enough for error checking, right?
> 
> (1@REDACTED)4> c(map7).
> {ok,map7}
> (1@REDACTED)5> map7:test(100000).
> Populate: 265.2531
> Lookup:   0.0831
> ok
> 
> The timings are not much off!
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