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The Functionality section in the erl_nif docs mention 3 different strategies for long running NIFs: Yielding NIFs, Threaded NIFs and Dirt...
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I wrote a NIF which have function that can take a long time to run. To prevent the scheduler from being overloaded with long running func...
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Mix release with NIF in a containser crashes … I can’t find why.
If I run the project locally (mix phx.serve) it works.
When I...
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adbc seems to use a huge amount more memory than “native” drivers.
I’m dumping large amounts of data each minute, about 600k data points...
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The starting point: The Erlang ODBC client has a “bug” where it only allows 4096 bytes to be returned per cell. The Rust odbc client has ...
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I’m creating a NIF, and having some issues around packaging.
I started with an empty Elixir app, added the NIF source in its own direc...
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Recently, I came across this wonderful blog post on Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust. However, when trying out Github Action...
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I got a very basic NIF working for KuzuDB: GitHub - bgoosmanviz/kuzu_nif: Adapting KuzuDB's Rust crate to Elixir using Rustler.
KuzuDB i...
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I am trying to add support for Nerves in Vix (an Image Processing library) and facing a blocker related to cross-compilation.
Background...
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Is there anything like Rustler or Zigler for Go?
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I’m currently in the very early stages of implementing futlixir, a bridge that enables Elixir to call out to Futhark programs. It works b...
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I’m trying to make a NIF that splits binary once using a delimiter (like :binary.split(bin, separator, parts: 2)) but in Rust I d...
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since erl_nif doesn’t seem to provide an interface to the logger, I’m wondering what’s the best way to accomplish logging from...
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I’m having problems with a compiled application in x86 and deploying it in arm arch. The thing is because Explorer lib but i don’...
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I am seeking advice on running an Elixir WebRTC peer from a docker container.
Problem
When running the application fr...
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I understand the concept of sleep or delay are for good reasons frown upon by the Erlang community. Process.send_after/4 is an excellent...
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Please help me.
I am trying to write C code of NIF referring to the following article.
However, an error occurs because the head...
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I’m currently working on a web spider/metadata extractor and because writing parsers for many file types would be too mu...
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I have a crazy question - does anyone think it would be possible to put the bun JS runtime (written in Zig) in a NIF via Zigler.
If that...
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I’m not sure if a NIF is the best option for this - I’m also not experienced with C (don’t even know how to properly link libs, for ...
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I am trying to install expostal in a new Elixir project in a container with alpine, and since libpostal exists as a package on alpine, I ...
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I have a NIF where profiling indicates some functions are hovering around the 1ms region so I intend to make them dirty. Should I ju...
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Dear community :waving_hand:t2:
I’m trying to get NIFs off the ground!
Oh boy :joy:
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My goal is call a library written in C.
The ...
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I’d like to know if anyone has tried using Crystal for NIFs, etc. If so, any caveats and/or comments?
-r
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I’m currently trying to find a memory leak in a NIF I have written in C.
I have found some resources as to how to run erla...
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The Magick Persistent Cache (MPC) is a memory-mapped file of pixels, used to store image data. ImageMagick maps this into memory, then ac...
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Author of the exqlite library here. I need some help from experienced NIF devs in hunting down the culprit of this SIGSEGV error. This bu...
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I have a NIF function (let’s say FUNC) implemented with C++, which is called approx. 10-20 times a second. Its implementation is qui...
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I am checking Nif function following Erlang erl_nif document and having an issue of compile error.
Could you please help me to solve thi...
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I’ve been playing around with Rustler NIFs to get familiar with them and understand how they interact with Elixir.
While running some si...
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