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Diffstat (limited to 'system/doc/efficiency_guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/functions.xml | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | system/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.xml | 4 |
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml index 0ec3afbd59..7898f925b9 100644 --- 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>2009</year> + <year>2001</year><year>2010</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. - + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. - + </legalnotice> <title>Advanced</title> @@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ On 64-bit architectures: 4 words for a reference from the current local node, an <item>255</item> <tag><em>Atoms </em></tag> <item> <marker id="atoms"></marker> -The maximum number of atoms is 1048576. </item> + By default, the maximum number of atoms is 1048576. + This limit can be raised or lowered using the <c>+t</c> option.</item> <tag><em>Ets-tables</em></tag> <item>The default is 1400, can be changed with the environment variable <c>ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES</c>.</item> <tag><em>Elements in a tuple</em></tag> @@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ The maximum number of atoms is 1048576. </item> <tag><em>Total amount of data allocated by an Erlang node</em></tag> <item>The Erlang runtime system can use the complete 32 (or 64) bit address space, but the operating system often limits a single process to use less than that.</item> - <tag><em>length of a node name</em></tag> + <tag><em>Length of a node name</em></tag> <item>An Erlang node name has the form host@shortname or host@longname. The node name is used as an atom within the system so the maximum size of 255 holds for the node name too.</item> <tag><em>Open ports</em></tag> diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml index e18e5aa510..61d13636c0 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2001</year><year>2009</year> + <year>2001</year><year>2010</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. - + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. - + </legalnotice> <title>Common Caveats</title> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ <p>Atoms are not garbage-collected. Once an atom is created, it will never be removed. The emulator will terminate if the limit for the number - of atoms (1048576) is reached.</p> + of atoms (1048576 by default) is reached.</p> <p>Therefore, converting arbitrary input strings to atoms could be dangerous in a system that will run continuously. diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/functions.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/functions.xml index d55b60e39c..fe14a4f000 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/functions.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/functions.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2001</year><year>2009</year> + <year>2001</year><year>2010</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. - + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. - + </legalnotice> <title>Functions</title> @@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ explicit_map_pairs(Map, Xs0, Ys0) -> A "tuple fun", <c>{Module,Function}</c>, is not a fun. The cost for calling a "tuple fun" is similar to that of <c>apply/3</c> or worse. Using "tuple funs" is <em>strongly discouraged</em>, - as they may not be supported in a future release.</p></warning> + as they may not be supported in a future release, + and because there exists a superior alternative since the R10B + release, namely the <c>fun Module:Function/Arity</c> syntax.</p></warning> <p><c>apply/3</c> must look up the code for the function to execute in a hash table. Therefore, it will always be slower than a diff --git a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.xml b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.xml index 76a72368bb..65113c9372 100644 --- a/system/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.xml +++ b/system/doc/efficiency_guide/myths.xml @@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ vanilla_reverse([], Acc) -> <p>Actually, string handling could be slow if done improperly. In Erlang, you'll have to think a little more about how the strings are used and choose an appropriate representation and use - the <seealso marker="stdlib:re">re</seealso> instead of the obsolete - <c>regexp</c> module if you are going to use regualr expressions.</p> + the <seealso marker="stdlib:re">re</seealso> module instead of the obsolete + <c>regexp</c> module if you are going to use regular expressions.</p> </section> <section> |