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User's Guide
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Chapters
- Introduction
- The Eight Myths of Erlang Performance
- Top of chapter
- Myth: Funs are slow
- Myth: List comprehensions are slow
- Myth: Tail-recursive functions are MUCH faster than recursive functions
- Myth: '++' is always bad
- Myth: Strings are slow
- Myth: Repairing a Dets file is very slow
- Myth: BEAM is a stack-based byte-code virtual machine (and therefore slow)
- Myth: Use '_' to speed up your program when a variable is not used
- Common Caveats
- Constructing and matching binaries
- List handling
- Functions
- Tables and databases
- Processes
- Drivers
- Advanced
- Profiling