Gleam 1.7 brings faster record updates

Gleam 1.7 has been released with faster post updating and a dynamic encoder for the custom type. Overall, the latest version of Gleam shows improvements in performance and package publishing.

The latest Gleam update has been announced January 5 and accessible from GitHub. Gleam, created by developer Louis Pilfold, is described as a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine. JavaScript lead time.

To make record updates faster, the Gleam compiler now “monomorphizes” record updates, meaning it generates the most efficient code to create a new record on a case-by-case basis, completely removing conditional runtime logic and its associated overhead. Optimization is for both Erlang and JavaScript. Another benefit of monomorphizing record update is that developers can change the parameterized types of a generic record using update syntax.