[erlang-questions] number of modules limit?

[Gianfranco Alongi]

You could purge unused modules and just keep the minimum necessary set at
all times?
Otherwise create the needed functions during runtime as funs and keep them
in an ets table?


On May 7, 2017 20:33, "Karlo Kuna" <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:

oh wow this limit is rather small !!!
are there any suggestions how to work around it ?


On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Dániel Szoboszlay <dszoboszlay@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Yes, there are limits for both the number of modules (65536) and the
> number of exported functions (524288 = 8 functions/module for the maximum
> number of modules).
>
> See erlang:system_info(info) for details, and in particular look for the
> limits under the =index_table:module_code and =index_table:export_list
> sections.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2017 at 19:34 Karlo Kuna <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> I am currently working on app that has potential to contain large number
>> of modules > 10 000
>> these are mostly implementations of behaviours that are generated in
>> runtime.
>>
>> My question is, what is most modules you have encountered in production
>> in running erlang application, and is there practical limit on number of
>> number of modules in system??
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