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What’s new in Erlang/OTP R9C. This presentation will highlight some of the new and changed functions in the latest release. Erlang/OTP R9C released 6:th of August. Supported platforms are: Sun Solaris 2.5-2.8 Sparc Windows NT/2000/XP (Windows 95/98) Linux x86 , …
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What’s new in Erlang/OTP R9C This presentation will highlight some of the new and changed functions in the latest release. • Erlang/OTP R9C released 6:th of August. Supported platforms are: Sun Solaris 2.5-2.8 Sparc Windows NT/2000/XP (Windows 95/98) Linux x86 , … • Open Source R9C-0 available since 6:th of August
New and Changed things (ERTS) • Memory management improvements with a number of different allocators which can be configured • temp_alloc, eheap_alloc, binary_alloc, ets_alloc, sl_alloc, ll_alloc, fix_alloc, sys_alloc, mseg_alloc • Strategies , best fit, address order best fit, good fit, a fit Changed flags for E-node start erl +MB true +ME true +MEas aobf +r • E:\Program\erl5.3\erts-5.3\doc\html\erl.html • E:\Program\erl5.3\erts-5.3\doc\html\erts_alloc.html
New and Changed things (ERTS) • Improved memory instrumentation • New! System flag +Bi starts an E-node which ignore break signals (i.e cannot be terminated with CTRL-C) • New!erlang:hibernate(Mod, Func, ArgList), reduce a process memory footprint as much as possible.Can be used instead of saving a process state in ets-tables Note! erl +P 262144 (default 32768 number of Erlang processes) • New!erlang:send/3 supersedes erlang:send_nosuspend • New! Support for IPv6 in the gen_tcp, gen_udp and inets modules.
New and Changed things (kernel/stdlib) • New! integer_to_list(Integer, Base) 3> erlang:integer_to_list(10,16). "A" • New! list_to_integer(CharList, Base) 4> erlang:list_to_integer("A",16). 10 • New format characters for io:format/2 ~b, ~B, ~x, ~X, ~+ and ~# • New format charaters for io:fread/2 ~u, ~- and ~#
New and Changed things (stdlib) • New! The Erlang shell enables the user to write functions which can restrict the execution of certain functions. • New! The modules erl_tar and filelib are now documented and supported
New and Changed things (compiler) • Change! When updating a record the record tag and size is now always checked. • New! In the bit syntax a size field can be bound during the same matching <<Size, B:Size/binary,Rest/binary>> = <<2,”AB”,3,”CDE”>>
New and Changed things (crypto/ssl) • Change! Crypto requires dynamically linked OpenSSL libraries that the user has to install (used via SNMP v3) • Change! SSL is now based on OpenSSL
New and Changed things (misc) • New! Erlang Reference Manual • New!crashdump_viewer for browsing Erlang crashdumps.
New and Changed things (misc) • New! Now possible to build Open Source Erlang also on Windows, New Installation program for Windows • HiPE improved performance for bit syntax matchings • Erlang mode for EMACS now documented + bugs fixed + new feature for aligning arrows. • Cover • new WebCover interface • export and import of cover data • multi node support • analyse_to_file can produce nice html output
Crashdump Viewer HTML based tool for browsing Erlang crash dumps Displays any crashdump from OTP R7B01 and newer Warning if dump is truncated example of dump
Incompatibilities When updating records , tag and size are always checked The deprecated module unix is removed See the documentation