Binary blobs over 64B are shared with other processes via reference counted pointers, instead of by copy. Of course this only applies to processes inside the sa

Binary blobs over 64B are shared with other processes via reference counted pointers, instead of by copy. Of course this only applies to processes inside the same machine. You can check the official docs: http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.html http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/binaryhandling.html