Editing Erlang (programming language) (section)

==Implementation==
The official reference implementation of Erlang uses [[BEAM (Erlang virtual machine)|BEAM]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.html#id90080 |title=Erlang – Compilation and Code Loading |website=erlang.org |access-date=2017-12-21}}</ref> BEAM is included in the official distribution of Erlang, called Erlang/OTP. BEAM executes [[bytecode]] which is converted to [[threaded code]] at load time. It also includes a native code compiler on most platforms, developed by the High Performance Erlang Project (HiPE) at [[Uppsala University]]. Since October 2001 the HiPE system is fully integrated in Ericsson's Open Source Erlang/OTP system.<ref>{{cite web |title=High Performance Erlang |url=http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/hipe/ |access-date=26 March 2011}}</ref> It also supports interpreting, directly from source code via [[abstract syntax tree]], via script as of R11B-5 release of Erlang.