[erlang-questions] Port drivers vs nifs

[Albin Stigö]

Thanks! The documentation should maybe be updated to reflect this... or
maybe I just missed it.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 10:52 Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:22 AM Albin Stigö <albin.stigo@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> How does Nifs compare to Port drivers in OTP 21 and beyond..? It used to
>> be that port drivers were more suited for threaded c libraries etc, but it
>> seems to me now you can do anything with with either.
>>
>> Will port drivers be deprecated?
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> No.
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>> Which should I choose when starting a new hardware driver (assuming I
>> have ruled out ports and c nodes, I'm aware of the implications)?
>>
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> I would do it in a NIF. NIFs have a larger API, work on dirty schedulers
> and are in most cases more performant than port drivers.
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>> --Albin
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