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| author | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2013-09-02 17:27:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> | 2014-02-24 10:26:07 +0100 |
| commit | a3af5f4a5c4568225ef91ee4493da6bf659f7161 (patch) | |
| tree | ab9b66d21a8398cae65428609acffb1cdd5d4dbe /erts/doc | |
| parent | 502b13aaf568e351bc30e44d0e14c063cbf5fc5a (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 7 |
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> |