I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory. Quick look: An Erlang list This is the in-memory layout of the Erlang … (more…)

This story (like the last one) was also inspired by the curiosity of my students at Cali, Colombia. The question, this time, is: When and why does the bang (!) operator fail?

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on ErlangPL as my Google Summer of Code project. The part of the project I’ve been working on aimed at analysing the performance of the ETS (Erlang Term… (more…)

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Do you remember List Incomprehensions? Well… there is more! And it will take us all the way down to the core of Erlang! (more…)