Performance of term_to_binary vs Bbinary_to_term

[Lukas Larsson]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 3:04 PM Valentin Micic <v@REDACTED> wrote:

> Put differently, is there any difference between internal and external
> term presentation?
>

They are very different. The internal representation is larger in size but
faster to navigate/manipulate. They also have very different requirements
that make them different.

You can read more about the external term format here:
https://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html
And the internal format here:
https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/#CH-TypeSystem

Lukas
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