[erlang-questions] Maps

[Steve Davis]

I agree... if they are actually lists of integers. 

However, if the list of integers represents a reference (e.g. path 
"strings", attribute name "strings") does this also hold?

On Friday, May 10, 2013 5:45:13 PM UTC-5, Robert Virding wrote:
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> Processing lists of integers is faster than processing binaries, which is 
> not surprising really.
>
> Robert
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> *From: *"Steve Davis" <steven.cha...@REDACTED <javascript:>>
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> I offer the suggestion that if "strings" were not processed as "just lists 
> of integers" but treated as the binary data that they are then you'd not be 
> needing to do this kind of thing...
>
> However, owing to that incorrect insistence in most of the platform apis, 
> I can see that it's hard to avoid.
>
> best,
> /s
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> On Friday, May 10, 2013 11:30:15 AM UTC-5, Max Lapshin wrote:
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>> Guys. 
>>
>> erlang is a rather simple language, which is seriously spoiled by 
>> endless list_to_binary and binary_to_list conversions. Are you really 
>> sure that we need  map_to_frame and frame_to_map ? 
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