[erlang-questions] binary optimization

[Mikael Pettersson]

Joel Reymont writes:
 > What is a "delayed sub-binary"?
 > 
 > On Jul 18, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Richard Carlsson wrote:
 > 
 > > or you try to rewrite the whole thing so you get a single main loop  
 > > with
 > > direct self-recursive tail calls (if that is at all doable).
 > 
 > Wouldn't the tail call of the loop need to be written as ?MODULE:loop  
 > to enable code reloading?

Only if you need immediate code upgrading in _this_ loop,
which seems unlikely.

Typically there should be a semi-infinite top-level message
receive/send loop, which calls into short-lived lower-level
worker loops, like your binary parsing thing. Only the top-level 
loop should have to care about code upgrades.