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authorBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2015-12-16 14:50:56 +0100
committerBjörn Gustavsson <[email protected]>2015-12-16 15:52:26 +0100
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Remove erl_prim_loader:get_files/2
erl_prim_loader:get_files/2 was an optimization introduced before the SMP emulator (that is, before R11). The idea was to use the async threads in the efile driver to read multiple BEAM files from the disk in parallel. In a modern computer with the SMP emulator, loading a BEAM module seems to be more time-consuming than reading it from disk. To optimize loading we would need to load several modules in parallel. We could modify get_files/2 so that it would support parallel loading, but it is cleaner to first remove get_files/2 and then (in a future commit), introduce new functions to support parallel loading.
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