This video was recorded at Code BEAM V EU 2021 - https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2021/ Here be Floating Dragons: A Tale of Making OTP Faster | Thomas Depierre - Co-founder and president at HaruspexDev ABSTRACT When you spend enough time in the programming community, you learn that a few things are full of dangers. Floating Point ? Here Be Dragons. String representations ? Here Be Dragons. Multi Platform Virtual Machines? Here Be Dragons. Here is the tale of how i replaced a Dragon algorithm with another Dragon algorithm, to convert floating points numbers to string faster inside OTP. Hopefully this will show you that dragons are not impossible to deal with. And that you can contribute to OTP too. • Timecodes 00:00 - 01:36 - Once Upon a Time 01:37 - 05:10 - Introduction to the First Dragons 05:11 - 11:25 - Why We are Exploring Dragons? 11:26 - 14:22 - Dragon Rules 14:23 - 20:13 - Let's Go Faster! 20:14 - 35:35 - QnA • Follow us on social: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/27159258 • Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next Code Sync conference near you! See what's coming up at: https://codesync.global • SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC47eUBNO8KBH_V8AfowOWOw See what's coming up at: https://codesync.global