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* Minor fixes
* Remove TODO items which are completed or tracked as issues
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robertoaloi authored Apr 9, 2017
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* Bring in missing text in the process and scheduler chapters [Happi]
* Fix the mess caused by mergin two different versions into the first chapters [Happi]
* Go over the new outline [Happi]
* Fix the license (issue 15)
* Fix links
* Add images
* Fix build system for ascii-art
* Bring in the beam instruction documentation automatically from the latest Erlang release
* Set up a build system that produces a new pdf on check-in (issue 10)
* Links to OTP code on github
* Add some kind of forum/wiki to discuss what needs to be done
* Fix the gdb examples to use the "new" gdb macros provided by OTP.
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implementation of Erlang and the Erlang Runtime System. In this book I
will refer to this implementation as _ERTS_ or spelled out _Erlang
RunTime System_ with a capital T. (See xref:ERTS[] for a definition of
OTP.)
OTP).

There is no official definition of what an Erlang Runtime System is,
or what an Erlang Virtual Machine is. You could sort of imagine what
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need different builds of ERTS depending on whether you want to use
multicore or not and whether you want to use 32-bit or 64-bit. (See
xref:CH-BuildingERTS[] for information on how to build different
versions of ERTS.) This book will not go into any details about
versions of ERTS). This book will not go into any details about
hardware but I will talk a bit about multicore and NUMA architectures
in xref:CH-Scheduling[] and xref:CH-Memory[].

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libraries shipped with ERTS. Nowadays most people use OTP together
with Erlang in "Erlang/OTP" as the name for ERTS and all Erlang
libraries shipped by Ericsson. Knowing these standard libraries
and how and when to uses them can greatly improve the performance
and how and when to use them can greatly improve the performance
of your application. This book will not go into any details about
the standard libraries and OTP, there are other books that
the standard libraries and OTP, since there are other books that
cover these aspects.


Finally, the sixth layer (APP) is your application which can use all
the functionality provided by the underlying layers. Apart from
upgrading your hardware this is probably the place where you most
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xref:CH-Debugger[] I'll give you some hints on how to find the cause
of crashing applications and how to find bugs in your application.



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