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That's not exactly true... in Erlang, any binary with size > 64 bytes will not be copied. Instead a pointer to a shared memory area will be passed.
by lpgauth 13y ago
That's not exactly true... in Erlang, any binary with size > 64 bytes will not be copied. Instead a pointer to a shared memory area will be passed.
- cpeterso 13y agoIf pointers are sent between Erlang processes, how does the per-process GC work without stopping the world?
- JulianMorrison 13y agoBig binaries (which yeah, I forgot about) live off to the side and are not GC'd. They're ref counted.