1. Latest News of the Erlang/OTP Releases
Erlang/OTP R8B to be released October 17.
Supported platforms: Sun Solaris Sparc Sun Solaris 8 UltraSparc LINUX X86 Red Hat Windows NT/2000 (Windows 95/98) Vxworks on PPC603, PPC860
Open Source R8B (OsX,FreeBSD,Linux, ...)
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2. Highlights in Erlang/OTP R8B System documentation
New Permuted index
New Efficiency Guide
Fewer levels in the HTML doc
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3. Highlights in Erlang/OTP R8B System documentation
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4. Runtime system stdlib/kernel
Memory handling
Improved memory management on UNIX (using mmap) gives less fragmentation and better performance.
Improved diagnostic BIF's retrieving memory information
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5. Runtime system stdlib/kernel
File I/O
Improved multithreaded I/O
Support for scatter/gather I/O in the file driver to improve performance.
Improvements of the real-time characteristics for the single threaded case (default) when reading/writing very large blocks.
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6. Runtime system stdlib/kernel
New functions in ets and dets
select/2 and select_delete/2 more powerful than match_object/2 and match_delete/2.
New variants of match, match_object and select to retrieve matching objects in smaller chunks
member/2 to check for a key without retrieving the whole object
insert/2 accepts a list of objects to be inserted in one call
delete_object, delete_all_objects, from_(d)ets, to_(d)ets, init_table and test_ms (only ets)
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7. Runtime system stdlib/kernel
Improved disc based storage
Dets, improved speed and resource consumption ,works better with multithreaded I/O.
Disk_log, Improved performance, especially when using multithreaded I/O.
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8. Runtime system stdlib/kernel
Misc improvements
Improved inet_driver (IP)
Named ports
Improved floating point arithmetic
Hidden Erlang nodes (useful for test tools)
New module sofs, functions for manipulating Sets of Sets
HiPE is integrated and can be enabled when building the Open Source version.
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9. Compiler/Language
New syntax for setting all remaining fields in a record #myrecord{a=Val,_=’_’}
New logical operators andalso, orelse
New more powerful inliner
Optimizations regarding records
Optimizations regarding list comprehensions
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10. Mnesia the DMBS
Improved performance for tables with disk_copies property.
Improved performance for disk_only tables (because of dets).
Mnesia:select/2 and 3 which can replace use of mnemosyne and mnesia:match_object.
Synchronous transactions
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11. Orber and Corba services
Improved performance for inter-ORB communication, and reduced memory consumption.
Completely redesigned cosEvent , now OMG compliant.
New service cosFileTransfer compliant with preliminary OMG spec.
New service cosProperty compliant with OMG.
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12. Megaco/H.248 Media Gateway Protocol
New application Megaco
the first implementation of the H.248 protocol within Ericsson
The Megaco application in Erlang/OTP supplies a framework for building gateways and controllers on top of the Megaco/H.248 protocol stack.
Tested in interop event together with several other vendors
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13. Next Generation Network: Softswitch Model
SS7
Network
Signaling
Gateway
SS7
SIGTRAN/TALI/Q.2111
Q-BICC/SIP-T
SS7
SS7
Gateway
Controller
Gateway
Controller
Wireless
Access
MEGACO/H.248
MEGACO/H.248
Trunking
Gateway
Media
Gateway
NEW
DOMAIN
IP/ATM
Enterprise
PSTN
Access
RTP/RTSP
ASP
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14. The Megaco/H.248 protocol stack in Erlang/OTP
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15. Asn1, compiler and runtime functions
Support for Information Objects according to ITU-T X.681 for both BER and PER
New options ber_bin and per_bin which uses bit-syntax and binaries in the encode/decode routines. Gives improved performance.
Support for DER (a restriction to BER)
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16. ODBC, interface to SQL databases
ODBC redesigned
Improved speed
New functions
Retaining old functions for backwards compatibility
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17. Tools
Cover a new Code Coverage tool which replaces Coast. Significantly improved speed and much easier to use.
Fprof a new profiling tool which measure how time is used in Erlang programs. Uses trace to file to minimize performance impact, and displays time for calling and called functions.
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18. Misc
Webtool a framework for web based tools, Web interface to appmon and cover
For a more complete list read the Highlights doc in the release (also in EUC proceedings)
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19. Contributors Licensed users Open Source users Many thanks to
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