- Interesting paper, Programming Efficiently with Binaries and Bit Strings
- Good reference guide
- Erlang internals, data type memory usage
- Don't get confused by the binary to integer stuff
- Also pulled down the source code from the book - Erlang Programming by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson
101> h().
81: bitstring_to_list(D)
-> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1]
85: bitstring_to_list(<<1>>)
-> [1]
87: bitstring_to_list(<<256:64>>)
-> [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]
89: binary:bin_to_list(<<256:64>>)
-> [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0]
99: <<Z:64/integer>> = <<1:64>>
-> <<0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1>>
100: Z
-> 1
Moar experiments
113> X = list_to_bitstring([0,1,0]).
<<0,1,0>>
114> X.
<<0,1,0>>
115>
121> <<A:24/integer>> = X.
<<0,1,0>>
<<0,1,0>>
125> A.
256