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TL;DR: is it OK in elixir to pass large (MBytes) binary strings through function parameters ? If not, what would be a clean way t...
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An in-depth guide on how to pattern match against binary data in Elixir.
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As the title says, what do you think is the most efficient way to fill a binary with all constant values? I usually do the foll...
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I run a system, where some structs are saved as binary with :erlang.term_to_binary and then deserialized with :erlang.binary_to_term. The...
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I have written an interface to a linear solver in Elixir. To solve the linear program, I just generate an input file, call the solver (wh...
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Hi, I’m new with Elixir and for learning I try to read id3v2 tags from mp3 files. The stdlib for working with binary seems awesome with p...
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Hex: bin_struct | Hex
Git: GitHub - 4ait/bin_struct
Docs: bin_struct v0.2.34 — Documentation
BinStruct is a library which main functio...
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I’m calling Nx.from_binary(binary, :u8)
If the binary_size is above 2147483647 (which is 2^31 - 1) then it raises the below error:
iex(...
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I have a binary of float32 representing audio data with floats in the range of [-1,1].
I want this audio data converted...
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When I hit tab in iex it doesn’t include bits or bytes on the list:
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TL;DR: is it OK in elixir to pass large (MBytes) binary strings through function parameters ? If not, what would be a clean way t...
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An in-depth guide on how to pattern match against binary data in Elixir.
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As the title says, what do you think is the most efficient way to fill a binary with all constant values? I usually do the foll...
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What is the Elixir way of decoding/parsing binary data?
I’m currently using the pattern matching (E.g. for a float <flt::float> = ...
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I’m trying to implement some functionality by pattern matching purely as a learning exercise to familiarize myself with bitstrings/charsl...
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I am reading a video file and want to create an Nx Tensors for each frame:
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Hex: bin_struct | Hex
Git: GitHub - 4ait/bin_struct
Docs: bin_struct v0.2.34 — Documentation
BinStruct is a library which main functio...
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Looking over how String.valid? implements :fast_ascii option, what’s the significance is pattern matching in groups of 7 bytes?
when Bit...
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Hi, I’m new with Elixir and for learning I try to read id3v2 tags from mp3 files. The stdlib for working with binary seems awesome with p...
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I have a binary of float32 representing audio data with floats in the range of [-1,1].
I want this audio data converted...
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I have a pretty basic question, what is the time complexity of code points?
In other languages ive used, a lookup table is employed...
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I have written an interface to a linear solver in Elixir. To solve the linear program, I just generate an input file, call the solver (wh...
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I’m calling Nx.from_binary(binary, :u8)
If the binary_size is above 2147483647 (which is 2^31 - 1) then it raises the below error:
iex(...
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When I hit tab in iex it doesn’t include bits or bytes on the list:
iex(69)> <<a::
big binary bitstring float...
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I run a system, where some structs are saved as binary with :erlang.term_to_binary and then deserialized with :erlang.binary_to_term. The...
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Sometimes I want to check if the input into a function is not a blank string.
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defmodule Example do
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As you know, Erlang and Elixir have a good specifications/functions for binary. However, I haven’t found it for bitstring. Here is some e...
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Is there a function that would convert <<1>> to 1, <<1, 0>> to 256. I do not mean parsing the binary as a st...
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I’m trying to debug large memory spikes in our production environment. I tried to see if I could create something similar with as minimal...
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I’m trying to write out a string, in binary, using Elixir’s <<>> syntax, and am having a dumb moment. I have a requ...
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I have time deltas stored in a file in two formats:
0xxxxxxx
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In the first format, the time delta is the unsigned 7 bi...
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I’ve been diving deep into charlists, encodings, code points, etc… thank you to the community who have humored me in the forums and in Sl...
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Why don’t Binary types implement the Enumerable protocol so that they can be used with the Enum library? It seems like it would be useful...
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I’m having so much fun working on the “Protohackers” challenges, I never got into Advent of Code much but this has been amazing. The chal...
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What would be the functional equivalent of Python’s bytes.fromhex() in Elixir?
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When you read a file with File.read, you get a large binary. I’m reading a file of numeric data that I would like to have in a list of in...
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