VLvladev·Jan 30, 2013
From the release announcement on the mailing list:
Some of the highlights are:
* Optimized handling of processes in the VM
* New internal process table allowing for parallel reads and writes
- optimized run queue management
- optimized process state changes
* "Non-blocking" code loading
* New internal port table, and rewrite of scheduling of port tasks.
* Dynamic allocation of port structures, allowing the default for maximum ports to be raised to 65536 (from 1024) Support for UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters in source files.
* Inets application: The http client now support HTTPS through a proxy
* Asn1 application: Major cleanup of back ends and optimizations of mainly decode for PER and UPER.
* The experimental features parameterized modules and packages are removed. An alternative compatible solution
for parameterized modules is provide
Read the rest
d here https://github.com/erlang/pmod_transform.
* All built in functions BIF's (even if they are implemented in C as part of the VM) are now visible in the
source code of the module they belong to, including their type specs.
* The Wx application now compiles and is usable with the unstable development branch of wxWidgets-2.9. This means that wx can now be built on 64 bit MacOsX as well.
You can find the README file with more detailed info at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16A_RELEASE_CANDIDAT...