[erlang-questions] Re: Unicast 20k messages, $500-$1000 bounty

[Paulo Sérgio Almeida]

Joel Reymont wrote:
> 
> On Jul 16, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Paulo Sérgio Almeida wrote:
> 
>> - obtain the list of pids with ets:select, as in:
>>
>>  ets:select(State#state.subs, [{{'$1', '_'}, [], ['$1']}]).
> 
> Would it not be faster to call ets:tab2list?

I have a weak memory, but I have the feeling select is faster in this 
case when you don't need all the content in the table. It is a built-in, 
it is producing less results (just a list of Pids, not of tuples), and 
then you don't have to extract the Pid from the tuples when traversing 
the list.

Paulo