[erlang-questions] Selective receive optimization for NIFs

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Dave Smith <dizzyd@REDACTED> wrote:
> In the past, I think I solved this problem on a NIF by just passing
> the ref in. It's a bit more of a pain, but should do the trick.
>
> D.
>

That was the method I tried first and it didn't have any effect. I'll
spend some time reading the generated beam code for both versions to
see if I can't figure out a way around it.

> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Sverker,
>>
>> Ah! That would explain a lot of my confusion. I spent a lot of time
>> reading through code thinking the magic was that refs were tagged with
>> when they were created or had some special flag when they got copied
>> out of a process. If I have time later this week I'll take some time
>> to start reading through decompiled beam to try and get a better
>> understanding and see what I can come up with.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Sverker Eriksson
>> <sverker.eriksson@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Hi Paul
>>>
>>> The OTP-8623 selective receive optimization was achieved partly with static
>>> code analysis done by the Erlang compiler.
>>>
>>> In your case the NIF is creating the ref. To do the same optimization for
>>> that, would need some sort of dynamic analysis done in runtime.
>>>
>>>
>>> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've got a bit of a curious question in relation to OTP-8623 (which is
>>>> the selective receive for a newly created ref skips messages in the
>>>> inbox). Apparently this doesn't appear to apply to messages generated
>>>> from NIFs. Or at least, not in the code I've got.
>>>>
>>>> I did spend some time trawling around erts internals but the few
>>>> references I found weren't enough for the whole thing to click. I'll
>>>> paste the sample test code I've been using in case I'm doing something
>>>> supremely silly.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Paul Davis
>>>>
>>>> https://gist.github.com/3073295
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