Re: OTP 25.0-rc1 (Release Candidate 1) has been released

Lukas Larsson <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:42:18 +0100

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 8:23 PM Max Lapshin <[email protected]> wrote:

> > The JIT now does type-based optimizations based on type information in
> the BEAM files.
>
> This is extremely interesting. Can you share any details about type
> optimizing? Maybe some example of optimized type hints?
>

We use the type information known by the compiler to generate better code
using the JIT.

You can read about one example here: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/5688

Lukas