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Yielding NIFs in Rustler for bindings to async functions

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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2026-03-22 11:19:09 UTC

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NIF returns incorrect results, reuses binaries?

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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2023-09-22 12:00:15 UTC

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Elixir NIF performance compared to native C++

I have a library which is written in C++, and I wrote a NIF “bridge” for it. When I bench marked the library in C++, it had ~400-600 ips...

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2020-07-07 10:42:23 UTC

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Does anyone think it would be possible to put the bun JS runtime (written in Zig) in a NIF via Zigler?

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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2023-04-28 15:29:54 UTC

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Choose the right way to integrate c++ code

Hello everyone, I would like to integrate some c++ code to Elixir. The library is GitHub - online-go/score-estimator: The score estimato...

#troubleshooting #c-system #nifs #ports

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2018-04-23 13:01:20 UTC

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Dirty NIF question

Hi, 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...

#otp #beam #nifs #nif

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2022-08-04 02:19:55 UTC

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NIF module dependency is not being fetched while calling mix deps.get

hey folks, I tried to fetch a small library which has a NIF module that calls a C code, but seems it cannot be fetched, so I’m getting: ...

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2020-06-24 19:49:11 UTC

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CRC library does not compile on MacOS

My elixir project indirectly uses crc which has NIFs. They won’t compile. It look like the linked does not see the libraries. rtp_to_hls...

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2020-07-10 21:22:01 UTC

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Erl_nif.h file NIfs on Windows10

Please tell me. I want to run Nifs on Windows10. When compiling with the MiGW version of GCC, I got the following error: What should I...

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2020-01-16 14:37:03 UTC

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NIFs raise Segmentation Fault while loading function has try catch block to handle the exception

I am working on integrating a C++ api with Elixir, by using NIFs. Now whenever I load the NIF, I want to initialize some variables/data w...

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2021-05-13 19:06:49 UTC

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NIFs vs Jinterface

What’s the difference between NIFs and Jinterface? From what I can tell, NIFs are for implementing a function natively, with C or, Rust ...

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2022-12-02 00:55:30 UTC

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Wrote my first NIF and I have some questions

I wrote a simple C++ NIF that gets the unix time. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it was great to see all of the pieces fit together pr...

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2022-09-20 19:20:10 UTC

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NIFs Segmentation Fault without creating erl_crash.dump however code is working fine when ran normallly without NIFs.

I am working on integrating a Third Party C++ api in Elixir using NIFs. Here is the code sample that is shared and is working fine when I...

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2021-05-13 07:58:19 UTC

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