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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-12-20 14:36:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-12-20 14:36:25 +0100 |
| commit | 9a048a8743c3d384b5e33d6383be97dc4858126e (patch) | |
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erts: Correct memory footprint for maps
Small map was wrong as we should include our own top Eterm and exclude
them for keys and values.
Large maps was wrong as it described the theoretical minimum of a
full tree, which does not happen in reality.
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml index eee2648f34..e1760d0ded 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml @@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ </row> <row> <cell>Small Map</cell> - <cell>4 words + 2 words per entry (key and value) + the size of each key and value pair.</cell> + <cell>5 words + the size of all keys and values.</cell> </row> <row> - <cell>Large Map</cell> + <cell>Large Map (> 32 keys)</cell> <cell> - At least, 2 words + 2 x <c>N</c> words + 2 x log16(<c>N</c>) words + - the size of each key and value pair, where <c>N</c> is the number of pairs in the Map. - A large Map is represented as a tree internally where each node in the tree is a - "sparse tuple" of arity 16. + <c>N</c> x <c>F</c> words + the size of all keys and values.<br></br> + <c>N</c> is the number of keys in the Map.<br></br> + <c>F</c> is a sparsity factor that can vary between 1.6 and 1.8 + due to the probabilistic nature of the internal HAMT data structure. </cell> </row> <row> |