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| author | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2017-01-23 17:10:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Rickard Green <[email protected]> | 2017-02-06 19:54:48 +0100 |
| commit | b079018e38272604ffacfece9b97924a9e39df5c (patch) | |
| tree | 87c0c5332a1dd466ba426a6f1ba464ecdc396399 /erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c | |
| parent | aefe39da715130f3d1df10084495d3b7ee48337e (diff) | |
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Implement magic references
Magic references are *intentionally* indistinguishable from ordinary
references for the Erlang software. Magic references do not change
the language, and are intended as a pure runtime internal optimization.
An ordinary reference is typically used as a key in some table. A
magic reference has a direct pointer to a reference counted magic
binary. This makes it possible to implement various things without
having to do lookups in a table, but instead access the data directly.
Besides very fast lookups this can also improve scalability by
removing a potentially contended table. A couple of examples of
planned future usage of magic references are ETS table identifiers,
and BIF timer identifiers.
Besides future optimizations using magic references it should also
be possible to replace the exposed magic binary cludge with magic
references. That is, magic binaries that are exposed as empty
binaries to the Erlang software.
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c index 90e78a9b0b..09d2c5376b 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_command_3(BIF_ALIST_3) ASSERT(!(flags & ERTS_PORT_SIG_FLG_FORCE)); /* Fall through... */ case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(ref)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(ref)); ERTS_BIF_PREP_RET(res, ref); break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_call_3(BIF_ALIST_3) retval = am_badarg; break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(retval)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(retval)); break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: ASSERT(is_not_internal_ref(retval)); @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_control_3(BIF_ALIST_3) retval = am_badarg; break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(retval)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(retval)); break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: ASSERT(is_not_internal_ref(retval)); @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_close_1(BIF_ALIST_1) case ERTS_PORT_OP_DROPPED: BIF_RET(am_badarg); case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(ref)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(ref)); BIF_RET(ref); case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: BIF_RET(am_true); @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_connect_2(BIF_ALIST_2) case ERTS_PORT_OP_DROPPED: BIF_RET(am_badarg); case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(ref)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(ref)); BIF_RET(ref); break; case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_info_1(BIF_ALIST_1) case ERTS_PORT_OP_DROPPED: BIF_RET(am_undefined); case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(retval)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(retval)); BIF_RET(retval); case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: ASSERT(is_not_internal_ref(retval)); @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ BIF_RETTYPE erts_internal_port_info_2(BIF_ALIST_2) case ERTS_PORT_OP_DROPPED: BIF_RET(am_undefined); case ERTS_PORT_OP_SCHEDULED: - ASSERT(is_internal_ref(retval)); + ASSERT(is_internal_ordinary_ref(retval)); BIF_RET(retval); case ERTS_PORT_OP_DONE: ASSERT(is_not_internal_ref(retval)); |