Just confirmed it works. iex>term = for _ <- 0..1000000, into: [], do: :rand.uniform(0x1111111) iex>bin = :erlang.term_to_binary(term) iex>for _ <- 0..1000,

Just confirmed it works. iex>term = for _ <- 0..1000000, into: [], do: :rand.uniform(0x1111111) iex>bin = :erlang.term_to_binary(term) iex>for _ <- 0..1000, do: spawn(fn -> x = bin; :timer.sleep(1000000) end) # Memory usage exploded in line below iex>for _ <- 0..1000, do: spawn(fn -> x = term; :timer.sleep(1000000) end)