Erlang/OTP 17.0 is a new major release with new features, characteristics
improvements, as well as some minor incompatibilities.
Some highlights of the release are:
- Erlang/OTP has been ported to the realtime operating system OSE.
- Maps, a new dictionary data type (experimental)
- A more natural mapping from ASN.1 OCTET STRING and BIT STRING to Erlang
types, and other ASN.1 improvements and optimizations
- The {active, N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTP
- A new (optional) scheduler utilization balancing mechanism
- Migration of memory carriers has been enabled by default on all ERTS
internal memory allocators
- Increased garbage collection tenure rate
- Experimental "dirty schedulers" functionality
- Funs can now be given names
- Miscellaneous unicode support enhancements
- A new version scheme for OTP its applications has been introduced
Signed-off-by: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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