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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2013-09-02 17:27:58 +0200
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2014-02-24 10:26:07 +0100
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erts: Set default external enc to use new float scheme
This change was triggered by the OSE float printing function not working exactly the same way as linux/win32. But it is also a good one in general as it cuts size in more than half for floats.
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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 0f312fb430..accd7f0b08 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -6572,11 +6572,12 @@ ok
some details of the encoding. This option was
introduced in R11B-4. Currently, the allowed values for <c><anno>Version</anno></c>
are <c>0</c> and <c>1</c>.</p>
- <p><c>{minor_version, 1}</c> forces any floats in the term to be encoded
+ <p><c>{minor_version, 1}</c> is since 17.0 the default, it forces any floats in
+ the term to be encoded
in a more space-efficient and exact way (namely in the 64-bit IEEE format,
rather than converted to a textual representation). <c>binary_to_term/1</c>
- in R11B-4 and later is able decode the new representation.</p>
- <p><c>{minor_version, 0}</c> is currently the default, meaning that floats
+ in R11B-4 and later is able decode this representation.</p>
+ <p><c>{minor_version, 0}</c> meaning that floats
will be encoded using a textual representation; this option is useful if
you want to ensure that releases prior to R11B-4 can decode resulting
binary.</p>