BEAM Extreme; Don't try this at home!

Who can't use an extra performance boost now than then? This talk collects a set of outrageous stunts and maybe-controversial defying acts I have seen and sometimes made in production, that can give the Erlang Virtual Machine that extra speed or memory edge on different scenarios.

Warning! Don't copy-paste these at home like if they came straight from Stack Overflow, with great power comes great responsibility.

OBJECTIVES

In most cases, clarity of expression should be the principle, but sometimes you are writing a heavily used component that could use a boost of performance. This will teach the audience some controversial tricks that can be used in these edge scenarios.

TARGET AUDIENCE

People who want to know some weird programming hacks to get some performance gains.