[erlang-questions] interesting I/O bottleneck

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

Would it be possible to have faster code for iolists and still be
backwards compatible?

I am thinking along the lines of a function with a try/catch that
assumes an iolist. If it fails the old, slower, code is tried too.
Without a catch, of course.


bengt

On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:26 +0200, Björn Gustavsson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:17 PM, James Hague <james.hague@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a reason that atoms are allowed in filenames? Why not just go with
> > iolists?
> >
> 
> Backward compatibility.
>