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--- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
+++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2001</year><year>2016</year>
+ <year>2001</year><year>2018</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -188,16 +188,9 @@
limit can be raised or lowered using the <c>+t</c> option.</cell>
</row>
<row>
- <cell>Ets tables</cell>
- <cell>Default is 1400. It can be changed with the environment
- variable <c>ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES</c>.</cell>
- </row>
- <row>
<cell>Elements in a tuple</cell>
- <cell>The maximum number of elements in a tuple is 67,108,863
- (26-bit unsigned integer). Clearly, other factors such as the
- available memory can make it difficult to create a tuple of
- that size.</cell>
+ <cell>The maximum number of elements in a tuple is 16,777,215
+ (24-bit unsigned integer).</cell>
</row>
<row>
<cell>Size of binary</cell>
@@ -255,10 +248,11 @@
<cell><marker id="unique_references"/>Unique References on a Runtime System Instance</cell>
<cell>Each scheduler thread has its own set of references, and all
other threads have a shared set of references. Each set of references
- consist of <c>2⁶⁴ - 1</c> unique references. That is the total
+ consist of <c>2⁶⁴ - 1</c> unique references. That is, the total
amount of unique references that can be produced on a runtime
- system instance is <c>(NoSchedulers + 1) * (2⁶⁴ - 1)</c>. If a
- scheduler thread create a new reference each nano second,
+ system instance is <c>(NoSchedulers + 1) × (2⁶⁴ - 1)</c>.
+ <br/><br/>
+ If a scheduler thread create a new reference each nano second,
references will at earliest be reused after more than 584 years.
That is, for the foreseeable future they are unique enough.</cell>
</row>