[erlang-questions] Are nested records copied?

[ANTHONY MOLINARO]

BTW, you'll probably learn a lot by checking out this video from the last Erlang factory

http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/ErikStenman

as it gives some good examples of what is happening in the heap and stack of a process and talks about term sharing and how it works.

-Anthony

On Jun 1, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Bryan Hughes <bryan@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks Bob - that is what I was thinking/hoping. 
> 
> On 6/1/13 8:50 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> It's not copied in this case, nested records aren't flattened or anything like that. Records are just tuples after all. 
>> 
>> On Saturday, June 1, 2013, Bryan Hughes wrote:
>> Howdy!
>> 
>> I am working on section of code that will be dealing with a large number of records in a relatively tight loop and have a question in how Erlang constructs a nested record.
>> 
>> If I define a person and manager record:
>> 
>> 1> rd(person, {name, age}).
>> person
>> 2> rd(manager, {person, dept}).
>> manager
>> 
>> Then create a person record:
>> 
>> 3> P = #person{name = bryan, age = 45}.
>> #person{name = bryan,age = 45}
>> 
>> And then a manager record:
>> 
>> 4> M = #manager{person = P, dept = foo}.
>> #manager{person = #person{name = bryan,age = 45},dept = foo}
>> 
>> When the manager record is created, is the nested person record P referenced by the manager record M, or is it copied?  
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bryan
>> 
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>> Bryan Hughes
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