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Re:Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why They Matter by shepardrtc on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @09:48AM (#10220573)
Then why don't they just say that? Something like, "Hey, we may change how this works in the future. Clever optimizations now may not work down the road."
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Re:Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why They Matter by zamalek on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @01:36PM (#10221965)
The problem with depending on specific optimizations like that it lock-steps you to updates that boast improvements (that break your implementation-dependant code).
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